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Martin Collins, reflecting on the media blitz on the funeral of Pope John Paul II, decries the superficiality of the media as it systematically destroys the truth. The Roman Catholic Church has a lengthy history of persecuting its "heretics," including Bible translators William Tyndale and John Wycliffe. Foxe's Book of Martyrs catalogues the relentless persecution the Catholic Church has directed against champions of the truth. A most blasphemous Catholic doctrine is ascribing the title "(Holy) Father" or "Supreme Pontiff" (Great High Priest)— titles reserved only for God the Father and Jesus Christ respectively, a practice prohibited by Jesus (Matthew 23:9). The veneration of Mary as a goddess, the "Queen of Heaven" (a continuation of the pagan veneration of Ishtar/Semiramis) also indicates that for Catholic theologians and prelates, truth "just seems to get in the way."

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