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Justin Soutar is a Catholic researcher and author. His articles about faith, the Pope & his message, pro-life and religious liberty issues, American politics and elections, terrorism, the Middle East, and other topics appear in a wide variety of print and online publications. Justin's book "America's Back-Door Enemy: Unmasking the Unknown Terrorists" (Tate Publishing, 2009) discusses terrorism from a Catholic perspective. His second book, "My Christmas with Mother Teresa," was written for a retired program director of Catholic Relief Services who worked with her during India's massive refugee crisis of 1971. Justin's next book will be a biography of America's colorful pioneer priest Father Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin (1770--1840), who founded the Catholic community of Loretto, Pennsylvania and whose cause for sainthood has recently been opened by the Catholic Church. Justin was born in 1986 to good Catholic parents in Irvine, California. His father was (and still is) an irrigation system designer for landscape architects in California. His mother was a devoted homemaker who helped teach, raise and care for him and his sister Amanda. At age five his parents moved to Santa Maria, where he spent the remainder of his childhood. Justin attended Catholic school for one and a half years and was then homeschooled through high school. In 2002 Justin and his family relocated across the country to western Ohio to pursue a healthier, more self-sufficient lifestyle in the countryside and to help other interested Catholic families do the same thing. After graduating high school in 2004, Justin took up his father's AutoCAD drafting business. In 2005, his interests in political and pro-life issues led him to begin writing. Besides being an author, Justin is also a classical pianist, composer/arranger and recording artist. His scores are available on the Score Exchange website. His first album, "Selections from The St. Michael Hymnal," a collection of favorite traditional and contemporary Catholic hymns, was released in 2013. Justin lives in Virginia and enjoys a variety of activities in his leisure time such as reading, playing piano, coin collecting, watching movies, bikeriding, fishing and amateur astronomy. One of his favorite books is The Lord of the Rings.
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