From the Editor's Desk...

By Michael J. Matt

Catholic Identity Conference 2019

This past week I had the pleasure of sitting for an online interview with Dr. Taylor Marshall, one of the rising Catholic YouTube stars. Dr. Marshall is a former Anglican priest who, along with his wife and now eight children, converted to Catholicism under the reign of Pope Benedict XVI. To say that Dr.

Marshall has grown disillusioned with the present pontificate would be quite the understatement.

Quite frankly, I was favorably impressed with this genuine Catholic convert who, despite obvious fidelity to his new spiritual home, has nevertheless begun to recognize that something is terribly wrong with the human element of the Catholic Church. He’s one of tens of thousands, in other words, who’ve abandoned the sinking Novus ship and is now helping to establish a veritable flotilla of lifeboats in Catholic Tradition.

He and those like him provide the old traditionalist guard with ample reason for hope and confidence that God has not abandoned His Church. Many are seeing the light of Catholic restoration, counterrevolution and sacred Tradition as the only way out of the post-conciliar darkness.

The case of Dr. Taylor Marshall also helps us further explain the point and purpose of the Catholic Identity Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. Precisely because the Modernist Revolution in the Church is collapsing under the reign of Pope Francis and driving many good men in the direction of holy Tradition, the time is now to "unite the

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