{"id":685,"date":"2023-02-18T04:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T04:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=685"},"modified":"2025-09-29T02:19:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:19:01","slug":"bb-13-ways-to-tell-if-your-priest-is-an-undercover-fbi-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"BB: &#8220;13 Ways To Tell If Your Priest Is An Undercover FBI Agent&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With this going on <a href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2023\/02\/fbi-retracts-document-orchestrating-investigation-of-radical-traditionalist-catholics.html\">FBI retracts document orchestrating investigation of &quot;radical traditionalist Catholics&quot;<\/a>&#0160; it&#39;s probably worth looking over (and memorizing?) this list. 1,2, 3, 10, 11, and 13 &#8230; could be especially important.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/13-ways-to-tell-if-your-priest-is-an-undercover-fbi-agent\">So there you are, trying to worship peacefully, and then out of nowhere a priest tackles you to the ground and arrests you for radical traditionalism because you spoke in Latin. Now you&#39;re in Guantanamo Bay being waterboarded about where you were on January 6.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202b68527dc11200d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"13 ways your priest is FBI\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e202b68527dc11200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202b68527dc11200d-400wi\" style=\"width: 360px;\" title=\"13 ways your priest is FBI\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How&#39;d you get here? You didn&#39;t keep your eyes open for FBI priests!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#39;s how to discern that your parish is under federal control:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>He&#39;s wearing aviators and an earpiece with his vestments<\/li>\n<li>The new confessional booth looks a lot like a white van with FBI agents in it<\/li>\n<li>When you confess your sins from Jan 6, he talks into an earpiece and says, &quot;We got him.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>He says things like &quot;Blessing upon you, fellow Catholic extremists!&quot;<\/li>\n<li>He tells you to say five hail marys and one J. Edgar Hoover<\/li>\n<li>Your rosary has an antenna sticking out of it<\/li>\n<li>He pats you down when you enter the building<\/li>\n<li>His robes look like they may have come from Spirit Halloween<\/li>\n<li>The name &quot;Father Burt Macklin&quot; seems suspicious<\/li>\n<li>Says he went to seminary in Quantico, VA<\/li>\n<li>His Sunday homily is all about Trump&#39;s Russian collusion, white supremacy, and the need to increase funding for the FBI<\/li>\n<li>The monstrance of adoration has wires coming out of it<\/li>\n<li>Prayer candles look suspiciously like microphones<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If your priest is showing any of these warning signs, run!<\/p>\n<p>Stay safe out there, Catholic extremists!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With this going on FBI retracts document orchestrating investigation of &quot;radical traditionalist Catholics&quot;&#0160; it&#39;s probably worth looking over (and memorizing?) this list. 1,2, 3, 10, 11, and 13 &#8230; could be especially important. So there you are, trying to worship peacefully, and then out of nowhere a priest tackles you to the ground and arrests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5679,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/5679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}