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Father Martin's statements — even those covered under the guise of 'objectivity' — appear to be more faithful to a political agenda than to Catholic teaching. In several tweets pertaining to faithful voting for Catholics, the popular Jesuit priest and author Fr. James Martin, S.J., who offered prayers during the 2020 Democratic National Convention, presents a distorted view of Catholic moral teaching about voting while creating unnecessary confusion for the faithful.Among the most misleading impressions Martin promulgates is posting an out-of-context quote from Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, in which the former head of the CDF (and current pope emeritus) articulated: “When...

The murderous secular humanist religions of Communism and Nazism were spawned by the anti-God/utopian tradition of Revolutionary France. The Black Book of Communism, an 800- page compendium of the crimes of Communist regimes worldwide, graphically details the terror, torture, man-made famine, mass deportations, starvation, and massacres undertaken on behalf of revolutionary utopian ideals. The reality of Communism, which claimed to be an emissary of the Enlightenment, of universal brotherhood, and of happiness for all as envisioned by Gracchus Babeuf, turned out to be not only a sadistic engine for unimaginable evil but also the creator of hells on earth. The...

ROSEBURG -- The 6-year-old daughter of Brian and Ruth Christine took the stand Tuesday afternoon despite a second attempt by the defense to exclude her testimony. Wearing a bright pink shirt and stroking a stuffed rabbit named Rosie, blond-haired Bethany Christine told the jury haltingly that she felt sad and scared after her father "pointed a gun at the people" on her last birthday, the day she and her sisters were taken by their father from two social workers at an Interstate 5 rest area. Bethany looked straight at Rick Wesenberg, the prosecuting attorney, while answering his questions and made...