First of all, I don't have any envy/spite for Taylor Marshall. I resent all the attention he gets, when much wiser and knowledgeable men* are being ignored. I question why johnny-come-latelies and converts (who almost always have a LOT of studying and catching up to do) must always be the teachers and spokesmen of the Faith. Why can't a few experienced, well educated Trads* take these roles?

I have a problem when men like Marshall claim to have "discovered" Tradition and try to become the spokesperson, talking head, and poster boy for the movement -- when this movement is 50 years old. If Marshall would give credit to +ABL, Bishop Williamson, dozens of good SSPX and Resistance priests, etc. it would be different. But he acts like he's discovered a new world and makes NO reference to any pioneers older than him. HE is the one late to the party. Nice of him to finally show up! But let's give some credit to the men who were fighting the good fight back in the 70's when it was MOST UNFASHIONABLE to do so, the real pioneers, who made the comfortable, Indult "Latin Mass" Catholicism of today possible. I'm talking about bishops, +ABL, various independent priests, prominent laymen, etc.

There are threads about Marshall here on CI about his background which is problematic.

If he's said any "good stuff" thus far it would only be because he's standing on the shoulders of giants. He needs to give some credit. You don't see me talking all the credit in my tiny apostolate here on CI -- I make constant references to my mentors and teachers. That's how it should be.

Taylor Marshall has a PhD, but it's not at a Trad university. He currently has 315,000 followers on Youtube alone. I don't think he's 315X smarter than Ladislaus or Sean Johnson, who has much more *relevant* knowledge and wisdom as valued by Traditional Catholics. How many followers did Sean's blog(s) have? How much attention do Sean or Lad's posts get on CathInfo today? How many copies of Sean's book sold? If Sean's blogs had a thousand followers, I'd be surprised. And here this Novus PhD "discovers" the Latin Mass and the whole conservative Catholic world swoons over him. Like I said, I don't hate him, he's just NOT my cuppa tea. I'd just like to see a more deserving man in his place.* Someone who is NOT controlled opposition would be a great start.


* I can think of at least 15 trad men who I've met, who would better teachers of men. Some are on this forum, some are not. I am explicitly excluding myself, BTW, for purposes of this discussion, so as not to taint or bias it with vainglory/pride.

By the way, here is my personal interpretation of his name:

Taylor = a lastname-firstname (how modern!), the meaning of which is "tailor". He is trying to STITCH TOGETHER all Trads into one group, so they can be led "wherever" (probably not anywhere good).

Reed = used in duck calls. He is calling out to the whole Catholic world like a HUNTER calls ducks. But what lies in store for ducks when they respond to the call of a HUNTER'S duck call? ...

Marshall = His job is "to marshal" us. The noun "marshall" is interesting too, but I want to draw your attention to:

Definition of marshal (Entry 2 of 2)
1: to place in proper rank or position
marshaling the troops

2: to bring together and order in an appropriate or effective way
marshal arguments
marshaled her thoughts before answering the question

3: to lead ceremoniously or solicitously : USHER
marshaling her little group of children down the street

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marshal


I know you don't get to pick your own name, but WOWZA you just can't make this stuff up! Someone, somewhere is laughing at us all.

The fact of the matter is, an average Trad man who has read "Plot against the Church", a couple books on Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ, all the +ABL books, etc. would have a clearer picture of the Crisis in the Church -- and more solid "meat" to talk about in a video blog -- than Taylor Marshall had on the day he received his PhD.

Now can anyone say that just because you read 20 books, you are qualified to be a prominent personality with 315,000 Youtube subscribers? No. How long would it take to read 20 or 25 books, really? A lot less than it would take to get a PhD!

But that's my point. In the Trad world, the stuff Taylor breathlessly reveals to the world as his own academic discovery is actually quite banal. Stuff every Trad knows. So banal, it can't even be monetized in any way. The Freemasons infiltrated the Church? YOU DON'T SAY!

I wish Trads could parlay such a banal piece of knowledge into a full-time career complete with worldwide name recognition. But apparently in the Trad world, it takes literal genius to rise above the noise, since Trads in general are a well educated and smart bunch.

Yeah, Taylor is a poor, poor, poor man’s Michael Davies.  He’s the youtube, electronic, Internet version of what John Venari did with CFN, except Taylor is 100% pro-Indult and much less knowledgeable.  Taylor only exists because so few priests have time to talk about current events.  

Dr. Taylor Marshall proudly claims to be part Jєωιѕн and in his owns words, is clearly linked to Opus Dei.

Opus Dei is Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ inside the Catholic Church.

What else do you need to know to discern if he's a genuine traditional Catholic... or not?

Marshall is part Jєωιѕн? Reminds me of Ryan (Statism is evil) Grant. I would not be surprised if all of our trad leaders are part Jєωιѕн and only pretending to be trad. Perhaps even Bishop Williamson.

Marshall is part Jєωιѕн? Reminds me of Ryan (Statism is evil) Grant. I would not be surprised if all of our trad leaders are part Jєωιѕн and only pretending to be trad. Perhaps even Bishop Williamson.

Merely having Jєωιѕн blood doesn't mean that you can't be a Catholic. Of course, there is a huge difference between being racially Jєωιѕн but being truly Catholic (ex. St. Vincent of Ferrer, Francois Libermann) as opposed to being Jєωιѕн and converting to Catholicism so that you can propagate тαℓмυdism within the Church.

And Bishop Williamson has done more in his lifetime (so far!) to unmask Jєωιѕн perfidy than most other men, past or present. He is in an elite club of Jew-exposers.

And let us not forget that Bishop Williamson put himself before the firing squad for speaking the truth as no one else in his position has in exposing the "Jew" deceptions.
Bishop Williamson may even be seen to have undergone a white martyrdom.
GOD BLESS him for his courage.

You can say this same thing about others as well. I tried to watch a YouTube video between two prominent "Trads" just yesterday, but it's tough to stomach. They both have big followings and consider themselves "Trad" (though, the do tread very lightly around that term as if there's still a few too many cooties there for them) but think their own personal revelations about the situation of the Church are more laudable than those giants of the past 50 years who've come way, way, way before them. The topic of this particular video was "Why Catholics Can't Reject Vatican II" and some day I might listen long enough to hear whatever their reasoning was, but when they don't even bother to reference the decades of scholars who've come before them, I somehow doubt they're more enlightened than anyone else. If they'd just stop calling themselves "Trads", I wouldn't be bothered by any of it, but it seems the term is being hijacked by what I'd call "conservative Catholics". Simply preferring a Latin Mass doesn't make you a Traditional Catholic.

That is a diamond bullet between the eyeballs clarity statement. How many souls have The Mass without The Faith? (Even amongst so called SSPX diehards who have drank the Kool Aid and really don't want to know how the Society has fallen. Not easy being a Resistance mole but for now the sacraments are still valid even though the preaching is pathetic.)
Objective ratification from a true source of Tradition is a necessity to determine one's own authenticity as a Traditional Catholic.
(Eternal gratitude to my prime mentors His Excellency +Williamson, and Father Girouard)