I am The Johnny Reb Catholic. Over the years, and especially in recent years, many criticized that I should lower my very high standards and disarming myself of my ideals, all in the name of practical progress and efficiency. Instead, the miraculous and the exact opposite happened: not only did I raise my high standards even higher, but I also kept myself well-armed in blazing the trail for the conquest of truth while also being practical and efficient in doing it. The noble conquest before is not the glorious achievement; the adventure afterwards is the glorious and noble conquest. Most people, especially the modern “Catholics and Christians” of our time, act and believe as if there is no middle road to virtue to travel on at all, and the ones who pretend to know about it seem to believe that it is only so very easy. On the contrary, it is extremely difficult, but not impossible, to be determined enough through supernatural grace to shoot through the gap like a thunderbolt, onward through the prickly rose bushes, and valiantly enter all the way through that narrow gate on the noble conquest for truth. Marching onward and charging forward boldly to Christian Rome not only knocked me across the noggin, but the very special and saintly powerhouses of Jesus and Mary torpedoed my mind out of the water and blew my doors right off their hinges on what I refer to as my “Great March to Rome.” My conversion to the true faith was the rebellion and the revolution of the Holy Mother Church and the Catholic faith, fighting the good fight against the modern rebellion and the revolution, taking it to the modern rebellion of the modern revolution.
Claiming English and German heritage, I am the first Roman Catholic and the only true Christian in my family, at least as far as I know, going back twenty generations to the Protestant Revolt led by King Henry VIII in England and Martin Luther in Germany. I was born in Pensacola, Florida, to a family of mainly Baptists and Pentecostals, though I firmly believe we were all living like pagans, apostates, and heretics. From living my life as the wretched pagan, the apostate, the heretic, the schismatic, and the scoundrel of every kind to doing the most unrespectable and unacceptable thing according to the “conventional wisdom” of the modern world, I converted to the true faith of all Christians, and yet I am proclaiming myself the most wretched dog of a sinner that there is on both sides of the Mississippi. If my fellow converts whom I admire the most, St. Augustine, G.K. Chesterton and even St. Catherine, could envy this old fool and rebel of youth raising the blade, it would be for the fact that I was living such a wicked life and even had my own childhood destroyed, or so I thought. Then I marched onward to victory in Christian Rome after about five to six years. It was around the Spring of 2019 that I burned down the bridge with Protestantism, or the “Bible Only or the Reformed Religion,” and I have not looked back. Completely oblivious at the time, I fell into the “belly of the beast” of the Novus Ordo Religion in Thibodaux, Louisiana, where I attended Nicholls State University from August of 2019 to December of 2021.
When I left Louisiana behind in April of 2022 to study at the Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio and studied abroad in Austria for a short time from January to March of 2023, little did I know then that I was on the conquest for the truth, or the “Holy Crusade” to find the Holy Roman Catholic Church, which was already in exile in the wilderness. It took several years, but I went through the stages of the “Recognize and Resist” position, passing onward through the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) and the Institute of Christ the King (ICKSP) and then passing through the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) before declaring Sede Vacante in March of 2024. When that happened, I found a sort of a bit of an unplanned detour, though it was no accident, through the other “Traditionalist” groups, including the Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen (CMRI), and that is where I was baptized on the Feast Day of St. Dominic (August 4, 2024), and confirmed one week later, both happening at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Weeki Wachee, Florida (Who eventually, by a miracle, found the Franciscans some time after I did by the Divine Providence of God). Finally, it was in March of 2025 that I found the Franciscans of the Strict Observance in Lubbock, Texas, and the Church in exile in the wilderness, completely cut off, but still visibly around in this apocalyptic age foretold by the Holy Mother Church and the Sacred Scriptures, to just Bishop Giles Butler and Bishop Luis Madrigal.
G.K. Chesterton once spoke of the need for “The Southern gentleman,” and “At this moment, America and the whole world is crying out for the spirit of the Old South.” God certainly has a sense of humor, for it seems to me that Jesus and Mary found that “Southern gentleman.” Therefore, I am following in the footsteps of my fellow converts to the faith: G.K. Chesterton, St. Augustine, and St. Catherine of Alexandria. I am also following in the footsteps of Louis Veuillot, and adopting all of them in my own writing style, although in the modern world there is most likely less of the need for “Johnny Rebs” any more than there is the need for “historians and philosophers” who have no idea what they are going on about. I do not know and understand everything, and I nonetheless attempt to write everything that I know and understand down. I believe that I am a historian, and yet I am still diving deep into the past while being ever present in looking towards the future; I strive to be a philosopher, and yet I still have much to learn and to gain from the knowledge and wisdom of the truth. The unspeakable is to be spoken; the unthinkable is to be thought out. Rest assured, there is a method to my apparent madness when I approach the situation in a refined and balanced style of passion and logic to keep the reader honest. While my tactics may appear to be not traditional and very unorthodox, it is for the purpose of exalting, for the sake of Jesus and Mary, what is very orthodox and traditional.
To address the rather dire and sinister situation of the Great Apostasy of the Novus Ordo Seculorum, it is in counterattacking that I attack with the noble standard of truth, like St. Joan of Arc, and though I own very little experience of the lowly private from the war in the trenches, I have obtained many objective experiences of the gallant colonel, and it is going on the defensive that I am going on the offensive. In being the valiant warrior for true faith and sound reason, I am the rebel of youth giving the fight to the modern rebels of the modern rebellion who blindly and obstinately lecture us on the “Modern Spirit of the Revolution,” to which I give the old “Rebel Yell.” For the “unconventional wisdom” of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, I give the old “Rebel Yell,” and in Christendom I shall go forward boldly to take my stand, to live and die in Jesus and Mary.
There have been two hundred and sixty popes from St. Peter to Pius XII. Pope Pius XII, as we contend ardently, was our last true pope since he died in 1958, and the Chair of St. Peter has been vacant. Moreover, John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis I, and Leo XIV are not only antipopes, but the most vile imposters to have ever hijacked the Papacy, and the Modernists and Liberals from the Papacy down to every diocese are the most sinister people leading people to eternal damnation. The gates of hell have not and shall not ever prevail against the Holy Mother Church, even if the Papacy is presently occupied by foreign invaders and vacant for a period of time, and the Holy Roman Catholic Church is left in the remnant to the episcopacy of the two apostolic bishops. The Holy Mother Church shall never free herself of the holy and glorious rails of Christian and Catholic dogma and doctrine, for the two holy and glorious rails of Christian and Catholic dogma and doctrine, the Sacred Scriptures and Holy Tradition, are divinely protected, supported, and held up by the holy wooden ties of the Magisterium: the Popes, the Councils, the Saints, and the Doctors of the Church. The supernatural society of Almighty God and the Holy Church does not yield to the world, but rather the world yields and submits to Almighty God and the supernatural society of the Holy Church. The Holy Mother Church is intolerant and exclusive, but she is also tolerant and inclusive. She is tolerant and inclusive to people, but she is very intolerant of false principles, false religions, false sects, false opinions, and false ideologies.
The Empire and Kingdom of Christ the King eternally conquers and triumphs, yet it does not dominate; the modern tyranny of freedom from the Talmudic and Masonic oligarchy, the Republic Babylon, and the Democracy of the Mob, all making up the Kingdom of Satan, dominates, and yet it only temporarily conquers and triumphs. To declare independence from the tyranny of modern freedom and dependence on Jesus and Mary at liberty is to be truly free forever; to declare dependence on the tyranny of modern freedom and to be independent of Jesus and Mary is to be forever bound in chains. The Catholic faith of all Christians is not merely ancient, medieval, and modern; it is far beyond the times. What was believed in A.D. 33, 313, 476, 1226, 1431, 1565, 1789, and even a century ago is to be believed now, and for all time. In the modern world, gone mad with trends and fashions shifting like sand, the Holy Roman Catholic Church does not shift with it; it is the salt of the world, standing firm on the rock of the truth and the facts revealed by Almighty God and Jesus Christ.
St. Michael the Archangel not only gave us the riddle, but also gave us the glorious mystery of the riddle; in blaring that rhetorical question, the Most Holy Archangel radiated the light of the eternal mystery to the question of what is religion, and the object of the true religion, when the striking question was thundered out: “Quis Ut Deus?” The glorious battle lines have already been drawn out and established by the King of Heaven when Almighty God told Satan, “I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.” The war rages on two fronts: the Roman Catholics who faithfully and boldly fight for the truth, hold fast in the trenches, stand firm in the gap, and rally behind St. Michael for Jesus and Mary, thundering out, “Quis Ut Deus,” and the wicked and perverse in the world who throw their support behind the Kingdom of Satan, shouting and gnashing their teeth, “Non Serviam.” The overwhelming majority in the modern world are going insane: the pagans, apostates, heretics, schismatics, but especially the Protestants, Liberals, Talmudists, and Freemasons, defiantly and obstinately shout, “I will not yield to the Church in Rome!” The Roman Catholic, the true Christian, returns fire and thunders like the Prince of the Heavenly Host: “Who is like the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church in Rome, established and protected by Almighty God and Jesus Christ?”
There are just as many heads as there are opinions, and it can be stated that there are as many false opinions out there as there are false religions and false sects. The true Christians left are the Roman Catholics declaring Sede Vacante and sticking our thumbs up our noses at the Novus Ordo Religion, the Modernist antipopes from John XXIII to Leo XIV, the Judeo-Masonic and Protestant invaders, the apostate clergy and religious who occupy Rome from the Papacy down to every single diocese in the world, and recognize and reject the utterly blasphemous and heretical changes of the phony “Second Vatican Council” brought to us by the Modernist thugs. We give our firm and loyal allegiance to the King of Heaven and to the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church, the Holy Roman Catholic Church, driven into the wilderness in exile, where Bishop Giles Butler and Bishop Luis Madrigal of the Franciscans of the Strict Observance protect and guide the small flock in the remnant around the world. The ever-rousing battle cry for the true believers, the Roman Catholics declaring Sede Vacante and all who have the implicit desire through supernatural grace to believe, is that ancient thunder of our brothers and sisters before us, the early Christian martyrs and the French Royalists of the Vendée during the French Revolution: Gloria tibi, Jhesus et Maria! Nous sommes la Vendée!”
