This site has reported, several times, on the anti-Catholic bias of the Democratic Party, including the actions of the federal government investigating “radical traditionalist Catholics”, and that FBI Director Christopher Wray lied under oath about the extent of the program.

President Biden was very famously Catholic, frequently attending Mass, even though his policies on transgenderism and prenatal infanticide were very much opposed to the teachings of the Church he claimed to follow, so one would think that officials in his Administration would use a bit of caution when attacking the Catholic Church as an institution, and Catholics in general. Still, the investigations referenced above occurred in early 2023, two years into Mr Biden’s term in office.

But now we have this, from Robert Stacy McCain’s old newspaper, The Washington Times:

Biden DOJ fantasized about prosecuting habit-wearing nuns

By Susan Ferrechio | Thursday, April 30, 2026

Justice Department prosecutors under the Biden administration exchanged texts relishing the chance to prosecute Catholic nuns — particularly traditional nuns “who still wear the head habit.”

One of the prosecutors is now running for the U.S. House as a Democrat in Virginia’s newly carved 7th Congressional District.

Oops! That “newly carved” district under Governess Spanberger’s gerrymandering scheme has been put on hold by the courts.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican, released documents about the anti-Catholic targeting. He released texts exchanged in 2021 between two prosecutors for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.

The same prosecutors later joined special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation and prosecution of President Trump.

The texts date back to the weeks after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, when the Justice Department began an unprecedented investigation to prosecute people who were on the Capitol grounds or inside the building that day.

Think about that. Department of Justice lawyers thinking about prosecuting Catholic nuns over the Capitol kerfuffle, nuns who did not enter the Capitol building itself, only a few weeks into the term of that famously Catholic president. Any new Administration lawyers ought to have had some real pause in going after nuns, unless they already knew that the President was a doddering old fool.

In a February 2021 text, Assistant U.S. Attorney Molly Gaston wrote to a colleague that she had spotted nuns “near the oath keepers” in a New York Times photo of the Capitol riot.

“I would like to take a special assignment of finding and prosecuting them,” she wrote to J.P. Cooney, then chief of the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Fraud, Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section.

“I’m with you,” he responded, “although I’d like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit.”

Ms. Gaston responded, “hahaha.”

“There was also a catholic priest in there,” Mr. Cooney added to the exchange. “He came to perform exorcisms. He has been suspended by his diocese, it’s somewhere in the Midwest, I think.”

Hat tip to The Western Journal for the link to the Times.

This is about the weaponization of government law enforcement agencies against believing Catholics. I’m old enough to remember the exchange between Center For American Progress fellow John Halpin and Hillary Clinton’s communications director Jennifer Palmieri, in the e-mails hacked by Wikileaks:

Mr Halpin: Many of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic (many converts) …they must be attracted to the systematic thought and severely backwards gender relations.

Miss Palmieri: I imagine they think it is the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion. Their rich friends wouldn’t understand if they became evangelicals.

Of course, Mr Halpin and Miss Palmieri thought that their conversation was confidential, and wouldn’t be made public, but I hold that we should trust people when they tell us who they are. Miss Palmeiri stated that she didn’t recognize the e-mail and that she is, herself, Catholic, but I suspect that she and all of the others on the political left are Catholics like Joe Biden, Democrats first and Catholics a distant, distant second.

The insiders in Mrs Clinton’s campaign weren’t worried about Joe Biden, who was then the outgoing Vice President, and with his choice not to run for President in 2016, they probably thought that he was done with politics, and anticipated eight glorious years imposing Mrs Clinton’s policies. We have Donald Trump to thank for preventing that! But that doesn’t explain how the Department of Justice was thinking about going after Catholics, and actually surveilling “radical traditionalist Catholics” as potentially “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists,” after Mr Biden became President, unless they planned to either keep such secret from the Oval Office, or believed the President too mentally disconnected, as early as his first months in office, to do anything about it. After all, these kinds of things would be seriously career-limiting moves under any other circumstances.

We’ve all seen the expressions that other Democrats and the credentialed media — please pardon that redundancy — tell us that they were shocked, shocked! to find out that the President of the United States was in serious mental decline. But it’s clear that they knew, they all knew, and the evidence is coming out slowly that they probably knew from the very start.