Fr. James Martin and the Tired Leftism of the Jesuits, by Mark Judge

Father James Martin, Society of Jesus, is at it again.

Martin, the Jesuit priest who has spent his entire life advocating for left-wing causes, is all over social media preaching that Jesus, Mary, and Joseph were refugees and therefore, good Christians should oppose President Trump’s efforts to stop illegal immigration into the United States.

What Father Martin does not wrestle with is the concept of evil. Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-old illegal immigrant from Venezuela, murdered a young woman named Laken Riley during a 20-minute struggle. Ibarra was convicted on a total of 10 charges, including murder, kidnapping with bodily injury, aggravated assault with intent to rape, and tampering with evidence.

Jose Ibarra is evil.

I don’t expect Father Martin ever to acknowledge that Ibarra is evil, not to mention the drug dealers and girl traffickers who poured over our border in the Biden years, because Father Martin can’t even acknowledge that pedophilia is evil. In 2019, retired Pope Benedict came out with an article about the sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. “When thinking about what action is required first and foremost,” Pope Benedict wrote, “it is rather obvious that we do not need another church of our own design. Rather, what is required first and foremost is the renewal of the faith in the reality of Jesus Christ given to us in the Blessed Sacrament.” ….