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Facebook posts stated on January 21, 2021 in a series of images:
Joe Biden was sworn in on a "Masonic/Illuminati Bible."
By Daniel Funke• January 25, 2021
Ted Cruz stated on August 04, 2021 in an interview:
“In the last several months, the Biden administration has released over 7,000 illegal aliens who were COVID positive just in one Texas city.” Biden's border policies are "endangering not just the people of Texas, but people all across the country."
By Brandon Mulder• September 3, 2021
Facebook posts stated on March 16, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Says Burisma admitted in a Ukrainian court to paying Joe Biden $900,000.
By Michael Majchrowicz• March 19, 2021
Sean Hannity stated on January 27, 2022 in a radio show segment:
“There's never been a president (before Joe Biden) that has made race and gender the defining factor” for a Supreme Court nomination.
By Bill McCarthy• January 28, 2022
Julián Castro stated on March 08, 2016 in Hillary Clinton campaign news release:
"Bernie Sanders voted with Republicans to protect the Minutemen, a hate group that used military tactics against our community."
By Filipa Ioannou• April 30, 2016
Ted Cruz stated on March 16, 2013 in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference:
Says the Democrats told the Catholic Church that they’ll use federal powers to shut down church charities and hospitals if the church doesn’t change its beliefs.
By Sue Owen• March 28, 2013
Facebook posts stated on July 21, 2020 in in a post:
Quotes Joe Biden as saying “We need to teach our children the ISLAMIC FAITH in our schools!”
By Emily Venezky• July 23, 2020
Cecilia Muñoz stated on February 01, 2012 in a post to the White House Blog:
"Most women, including 98 percent of Catholic women, have used contraception."
By Becky Bowers• February 6, 2012
Newsmax stated on January 04, 2023 in a Facebook post:
"Pope Benedict XVI and the Vatican requested that President Biden not attend Benedict’s funeral."
By Samantha Putterman• January 6, 2023
Ron DeSantis stated on March 13, 2021 in in an interview on Fox News:
"When I became governor, we banned sanctuary cities and we also did E-Verify."
By Amy Sherman• March 19, 2021
Facebook posts stated on June 07, 2023 in a Facebook post:
“Military, Trump thwart deep state blackout.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• June 8, 2023
CatholicVote stated on August 17, 2022 in an ad:
Three churches were targeted during arson attacks over the summer “because they protect unborn babies and women in need.”
By Tom Kertscher• September 1, 2022
TikTok posts stated on March 23, 2025 in a video:
Screenshots show Speaker Mike Johnson messaging on Grindr.
By Grace Abels• April 1, 2025
Joe Biden stated on September 27, 2020 in a speech:
Says Amy Coney Barrett “has a written track record, disagreeing adamantly with the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the ACA. In fact, she publicly criticized Chief Justice Roberts’ opinion upholding the law eight years ago.”
By Angie Drobnic Holan• September 28, 2020
Facebook posts stated on October 10, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says Kamala Harris said, “American churches are PROPAGANDA CENTERS for intolerant homophobic, xenophobic vitriol."
By Ciara O'Rourke• October 13, 2020
Newt Gingrich stated on January 30, 2012 in a town hall in Jacksonville, Fla.:
"The Obama administration ... would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every Protestant institution the Obamacare standard of what you have to buy as insurance." 
By Becky Bowers• January 31, 2012
Facebook posts stated on March 01, 2022 in a post:
Ukraine issued a press release about Joe Biden
By Monique Curet• March 7, 2022
Facebook posts stated on December 15, 2020 in a Facebook post:
An “audit report” found that a voting system used in Michigan in the 2020 presidential election was designed to “create systemic fraud.”
By Tom Kertscher• February 1, 2021
Instagram posts stated on September 17, 2023 in an Instagram post:
“World leaders & elite businessmen are ingesting the blood of young children in order to achieve ‘eternal youth,’ a CBS report warns.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• September 20, 2023
Jon O'Brien stated on April 11, 2012 in written testimony at a House hearing:
"Only 14 percent of Catholics agree with the Vatican's position that abortion should be illegal."
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• April 19, 2012

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By Grace Abels• October 27, 2023

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The health care law, Catholics and birth control

By Becky Bowers• February 10, 2012

5 key moments during Marie Yovanovitch's impeachment testimony

By Jon Greenberg• November 15, 2019

Harris, once Biden’s voice on abortion, would take an outspoken approach to health

By Julie Appleby, Stephanie Armour, Julie Rovner• July 21, 2024

Keeping facts straight on 98% of Catholic women

By Becky Bowers• February 17, 2012

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Winsome Sears makes head-scratching COVID claims during CNN interview

By Warren Fiske• November 30, 2021

Ted Cruz claim about Democrats and Catholic church unsupported

By W. Gardner Selby• March 28, 2013

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By Maria Ramirez Uribe• October 25, 2024

Fact-checking Julián Castro’s claim that asylum ‘metering’ caused drowning of father, daughter

By Amy Sherman, Miriam Valverde• June 27, 2019

Mailbag: Gas prices, the war in Ukraine, and more

By Jon Greenberg• March 21, 2022

Fact-checking Donald Trump’s closing arguments of the 2020 campaign

By Miriam Valverde• October 27, 2020

Democrats’ memo pushes back on GOP claims about Russia probe

By John Kruzel• February 28, 2018

In Jan. 6 hearing, former AG Bill Barr discredits ‘2,000 Mules’ voter fraud film

By Jon Greenberg, Bill McCarthy, Amy Sherman• June 13, 2022

Taking a look at claims as Republicans gather soon to nominate Trump for a second term

By Haley BeMiller• August 21, 2020

The facts on what the Catholic Church has said about the Johnson & Johnson vaccine

By Noah Y. Kim• March 9, 2021