Trailer for my book Fleur-Darc, A Journey Toward the Kingdom with St. Thérèse and St. Joan of Arc

Posted on May 16, 2012 by
SJST
Enjoy the trailer for my book Fleur-Darc (written under my real name, Walter Adams)! You can get your copy in paperback or e-format. Also visit my author’s web site, The Dove and Rose!

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Le Royaume – S.T. Martin’s story in 5 minutes

Posted on May 14, 2012 by
SJST
I hope you enjoy.
The radio interview excerpts are courtesy of Dennis O’Donovan at rpconradio. You can click here for his full 30 minute interview of me.
StM
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Le Royaume – The development of S.T. Martin’s writings in 3 minutes

Posted on May 14, 2012 by
SJST
I hope you enjoy this short story in pictures, words, and music about how my writings came to be.
StM
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Creating the Catholic Supra-Culture – How you can join The Kingdom Blessed of St. Joan and St. Thérèse

Posted on May 4, 2012 by
SJST

Let’s face it. We live in a post-Christian world. At least we should say that we live in a post-Christian Western Civilization. Or, at the very least, we can say with absolute certainty that we live in a post-Christian America. However one wishes to formulate the proposition, we as traditionally minded Catholics know that our culture and our respective Western countries are lost to the Church. A veritable tidal wave of angry, vulgar, arrogant, and totalitarian secularism has swept our shores in an attempt to wipe out the entirety of Christian tradition and influence. As the wave gathered strength for a couple of decades beginning with the “Sixties” hippie revolution, the voices representing its guiding force spoke innocently of simply wanting a seat at the table of modern culture, so long dominated by nearly two thousand years of Catholic civilization (some will add “and by Protestant influence” here, and true enough in a certain respect, but we see Protestantism as merely the first of the initial tidal waves of rebellion against Christian Dogma and Tradition, later waves being the French and Bolshevik Revolutions, and more recently in America as the “Sixties” Revolution; it was, and is, the same spirit of anti-Catholic civilization driving all of these Revolutions). Today, this force demands not just a seat at the table but the entire room itself. Christians, and particularly Catholics, are castigated and ridiculed, while the Church’s enemies simultaneously speak to the rest of the world of brotherly love for all people. As G.K. Chesterton so profoundly pointed out, “There are those who hate Christianity, and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.”
The War (that War that began before the dawn of time and which must be fought by every generation of believers) is not lost, but the battlefield is currently dreary. We find ourselves in retreat, if for no other reason than to re-organize. The victory is ours, there can be no doubt. Yet, modernity finds us under siege. Originally, the work of Le Royaume Béni des Ste. Jeanne et Ste. Thérèse (SJST) was geared specifically and narrowly toward pro-actively fighting that battle. We remain committed to that as a general principle, as all faithful Catholics must.

Still, over time, we have come to realize that during our darkest hours, we must think about more than simply the War. We need to be able to live, breathe, rejoice, and grow in our life-giving spirituality toward our destiny in the Kingdom. In other words, with the usurpation of contemporary culture by anti-God forces, we need our own culture. Theirs simply will not do. Light cannot exist with darkness. We need to be more than counter-cultural; we need to be sub-cultural. Better still, and staying with our analogy of light, we need to be “supra” cultural. In other words, we need to be not just against something; we need to be for something. We are not just against darkness. We are for light. The War must be fought, yes. That is our privilege, our road to glory, in the Kingdom. Certainly, we must “counter” the prevailing forces of darkness and spiritual anarchy in the modern culture. But we must always remember that we are primarily FOR something, something more astonishing than the secular world can wrap its head around. We are not simple reactionaries, who at times blindly reject change only because it is change. In contradistinction, we are counter-revolutionaries who understand the evils of the modern Revolution engulfing our world and who know that it threatens, even openly attacks, our way of life, of faith, of hope, and of love. First and foremost, we are FOR the Kingdom of God.
Thus, SJST has clarified its focus. The Vision and Mission remain firm. The Catholic and Royal Army of America is alert and prepared. But it is through the saintly and sisterly patronage of our heavenly sisters, Ste. Jeanne d’Arc and Ste. Thérèse of Lisieux, that we invite others to join us in creating a positive, life-giving, traditional Catholic supra-culture. Through SJST, we hope to provide, first through social media associations, but then ultimately in real associations, an alternative to the cold, dark, anarchic secular culture. We want to be Catholics living in a Catholic culture, not Catholics enduring life in a secular culture. The world has rejected our influence and our way of life. So be it. Let us continue to evangelize that world, but let us also refuse to live by its terms. SJST seeks to be a springboard for re-energizing Catholics and for building the Catholic supra-culture we so desperately need to live, rather than to suffocate in secularism.

That is what it means to live in the Kingdom. Our Lord’s Kingdom is not of this earth; yet, He insists that we live by it while on the earth. “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” Join us at SJST as we support one another in creating the supra-culture we desire and as we reject the world in which the secularists demand we live. While at the moment we are confined to social media, one day we hope to have local and regional gatherings, perhaps even an annual convention of sorts! “We are Catholic – We are Free!” is the motto of our defense forces, the Catholic and Royal Army of America, and it is a motto by which we truly desire to live!
With that in mind, how can you join us at SJST? We propose the following scheme. It is intended to be fun and perhaps even a little tongue-in-cheek. But it might help you think about how to become part of the counter-revolution and about how to find your place so as to breathe in the life-giving air of your Catholic culture:
Un(e)Touriste – You might just consider yourself a tourist. Every Kingdom needs a good tourism industry! Think of Monaco. Does one need to become a citizen of Monaco to enjoy the life there from time to time? Perhaps you are interested in what you have found in the Kingdom Blessed of St. Joan and St. Thérèse, but you are not fully of the same mind. We welcome you! Come spend some time with us. Shop, have dinner, and take in a show! Just obey the laws of the land so Le Ministre d’Affaires du Royaume does not have to send in the gendarmes of the Catholic and Royal Army! Conversely, if you are visiting our small but friendly little Kingdom yet find one of our own behaving poorly toward you, Le Ministre will send the gendarmes in to help you! On any account, come have fun with us.
Un(e) ami(e) du Pays – Alternatively, you might consider yourself a friend of the country, a friend of the land. Maybe you are simply interested in or devoted to our two noble saintly sisters but have little interest in the rest. You may or may not care to enlist in the Catholic Army. You are a friend, nevertheless, and we welcome you.
Un(e) Fils/Fille du Royaume – Finally, you might consider yourself a full son or daughter of the Kingdom. You know in your heart and soul that our Ste. Jeanne and Ste. Thérèse are calling you to the Immaculate Heart of Mary where Christ is enthroned in all His glory. You might, though not necessarily must (for there are no “musts” in the Kingdom other than obedience to our Holy Faith), support all the functions in the Kingdom. Nevertheless, you are called to who you are destined to be in this Kingdom, and you know that this is so. We are humbled by your presence.
Begin your journey in the Kingdom Blessed of St. Joan and St. Thérèse, le Royaume Béni des Ste. Jeanne et Ste. Thérèse! You don’t even have to tell us which of the above you are. Those are simply guidelines to think about. Maybe when we finally have that National Convention, we will put our membership status on our name tags!
What you can do to begin:
- Like the Kingdom’s sites on Facebook, S.T. Martin, Le Royaume Béni des Ste. Jeanne et Ste. Thérèse, The Dove and Rose (St. Joan and St. Thérèse, and The Catholic and Royal Army of America (CRAA), and participate with us in our sharing
 - Tell everyone you know. Share our blog, St. Joan and St. Thérèse. Share our home page. Share our Facebook sites.
- Talk to your priest or organization’s leaders about having a presentation
- Help us reach our goal of bringing enough people together in local and regional communities to have actual get-togethers for sharing our faith, hope, and love through Ste. Jeanne, Ste. Thérèse, our holy Queen in Heaven, and through them all to our Savior, Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, who alone is the Savior of the human race and the One who will come to judge the living and the dead.
Enjoy your stay in the Kingdom!
(By the way, if you would like to see the inspiration behind the name, “The Kingdom Blessed of St. Joan and St. Thérèse,” read my poem “That Kingdom Blessed of Joan and St. Thérèse.”)
S.T. Martin (“le Ministre”)
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A Catholic madman’s guide to the galaxy (and on going home to Guymon, OK)

Posted on April 27, 2012 by
SJST

I’m writing this not knowing whether not I will be able to make my Guymon High School 35th class reunion this summer. Guymon Oklahoma is far from Chicago, and Oklahoma City, the gathering spot for the reunion, is not much closer. We’re all grown up these days, if not in mind at least in body and in accumulated responsibilities. Duties, time, money, and the general vagaries of life all come into play in determining the outcome. Then we have to sort, prioritize, plan-a-tize, and all those other “ize” kinds of things. Sometimes I just wish I were closer to home. And that, the general theme of coming home, and coming home from where, is what I would like to present to you here.
The first thing to notice is that I refer to Guymon, OK as home. The home where I now live is in the Chicago metro area. It is indeed “a” home. For my son, who has spent most of his life here, this will be as much “home” for him as Guymon is “home” for me. So, in that sense, Chicago land is sacred ground. Plus, I really like it here. But none of that can alter the fundamental truth for me that Guymon is “my” home. Of course, if I were to go back there today, I would not know too many people (and they would certainly not recognize me). Most of the friends with whom I grew up are gone as well. But that does nothing to keep Guymon from still being “home.” A high school classmate recently wrote me a note on Facebook pointing out that there is an old saying to the effect that while young, one tries to get away from home, only to spend the rest if his or her life trying to get back. “I heard that,” as one might say “back home.”
This all became poignantly clear to me over the past few years. Facebook brought me back into touch with those people and those memories in a way that I could never have imagined a few years earlier when I was globe-trotting. I assumed then that there was only forward motion with no chance to go back. Yet, the oddest thing has happened to me over this time. I have traveled to worlds beyond while at the same time finding myself heading “home” again. Forward motion has come together with what is behind me in a way that has touched me profoundly.
I believe that when that happens, when time comes together into one moment where the past, present, and future collide, we call that eternity. It is the Eternal NOW. I think that this NOW brushed up against me. I did not know what it was. It startled me. Yet, it has left an indelible mark on my soul. Rather, it has bored all the way through my soul like a branding iron to my most hidden chambers. That I write publicly about these things, in effect as one who pens a private diary only to purposely leave it on a bench in a public square, might seem strange, self-centered, imprudent, all the above, or, quite simply, just mad. But the reality is that it seems impossible for me not to do it. Like an energy source, this NOW has a life of its own that at the same time has become the essence of my own life. It is not of me, but it is me, and there is no other way I can explain it. It demands to break out. My joy in living is to let it do so. Plus, I don’t like traveling alone.
It was on July 17, 2006 that the thing happened. I won’t go into the details, as I have written a number of posts about this event. But for those of you who have followed my journeys over the years, you know what that thing was that happened. On that day my life was unalterably altered by the influence of the greatest heroine in the history of France, or of all the world for that matter, Ste. Jeanne d’Arc. I could not possibly recount to you here how all of this happened. You would have to simply read through my material. But my experience that day, and the spiritual journey it brought about in me over what appears to be the rest of my years on earth and then into eternity, forever shook me to my core. Life has not been the same since, nor could it ever be, and I will not rest until I am finally eternally home in the Mystical Kingdom of France with Jeanne d’Arc.

I did something that day, July 17, 2006, that is perhaps the most outrageous, the most daring, the most breathtaking, the most unthinkable thing a person could do. I did what so few people in the modern world have done. This act was an egregious break with modern society. It was the most counter-revolutionary, counter-cultural act a person can make in the modern era. What I did was this. I decided to take the Catholic Church at her word. I decided to accept everything she had to say and to (you might want to pause here for strength) surrender my intellect and will, that is, to submit my intellect and will, to the authority of the Catholic Church. Can you imagine? The audacity! John Lennon’s Revolution was easy. That can be done falling out bed in the morning. You should try the Counter-Revolution. That will make your hair stand on end like a loopty-loop roller-coaster. I went where in the modern world we could almost say, no man goes before us. Modern man will say that he is not foolish enough to do what I did. I will respond that he is not brave enough to do what I did. With shrieks from the general community, I went forward. Into the mist I went.
Why, in heaven or on earth, would I have done that? What causes a man to simply go mad? Well, for starters, I was motivated by the desire to live. The day before, July 16, 2006, I was not far from death and was even closer to insanity. The choices before me on July 16 were: Jail, Asylum, or Coffin. One of those three was going to be my destiny within my near future, probably within a year. Yet, only 24 hours later, on July 17, 2006, I was completely restored by the authority of the King of Heaven Himself.
I then found myself before the Queen of Heaven who gave me one command, and one command only, as a condition for my continued freedom from the chains that had held me bound: “Seek First the Kingdom.” Ste. Jeanne d’Arc, the heavenly Daughter of God who restored the Kingdom of France for Jesus Christ during her temporal life, was to be my constant companion and guide. Why this is so is not as mysterious as it might first sound, but you will need to read my other writings to understand it. Thus, before me in one direction was death, or more likely, insanity just preceding an early death. Before me in the opposite direction was a Kingdom. Which path would I choose? It was up to me. Perhaps this decision was not as difficult as you might have imagined in the beginning. Mad? I was already mad. Been there, done that. “Imagine there’s no heaven, and no religion, too” Mr. Lennon? Sorry. Been there done that, too. That’s what drove me mad.
Crossing through the threshold of the gateway into the Kingdom, I found, as G.K. Chesterton has described it, that the Church was bigger on the inside than on the outside. That is because the Church is not simply an institution; it is not simply a religion; it is not simply a philosophy; nor is it a mere opinion. The Church is a Kingdom. It is a Kingdom that is seen on earth as one sees mountains in the distance from a meadow on a hillside looking through the early morning mist. Something grand is out there, but you just can’t see it all. The actual reality is indeed bigger than the foggy view you have before you. Only when the mist rises can we see the entire panorama. The mist will not fully rise until we die.

Over the past six years, I have been riding through that Kingdom, misty as it might be for me, with my most faithful guide. My goodness. We have battled the Saracen at Tours with Charles Martel, fought Crusades in the Holy Lands, studied philosophy with Thomas Aquinas in Paris, crowned Kings in Rheims, been imprisoned at Rouen, burned at the stake, backed-up to the gates of hell, fought the Protestant and Catholic Wars of Religion, marched alongside general Charette in the armée catholique et royale of the Vendée during the French Revolution, had peaceful retreats in the meadows of France, and once or twice on a sunny day even caught glimpses of those celestial castles. I am happy to argue religion and philosophy with you, but you first have to convince me that you’re having more fun than I am.
Through it all, I became a new man who is still the same man. Note that I did not say that I was a new man who was still the old man, for the new and the old cannot co-exist. New wine in old wineskins will merely split and spoil the new wine. No, I mean I became a new man who is the same man. As Aquinas teaches us, grace builds on nature; it does not destroy nature.
I knew then that my destiny was in a place I like to call “La France Mystique,” or, Mystical France. I had become (brace yourself) medieval-minded. Rather than the ardent Democratic Republican I had been so dogmatically taught to be from my youth, I had become a strong supporter of the Frankish Royalty and of the restoration of the French Monarchy. I have even proposed a Catholic Monarchy for the United States (a real popular concept here, as you can imagine – it should really take off any day now). Why, again, would I do, say, and propose such madness? Well, now, this time, it is not from a sense of desperation; rather, it is from a sense of love. I do and say mad things about my saintly heroine, her kings, her queens, and her land because I have come, through all of these grand adventures, to love this Kingdom with that King, that Queen, and that saintly heroine. I sought the Kingdom as commanded, and that Kingdom is breathtaking.

But still, recently, I could tell that my heart was nevertheless, and simultaneously, sending me home, back home to the much smaller and fantastically less romantic kingdom of Guymon, OK where I grew up and had such wonderful childhood memories. Despite these marvelous adventures in forward motion, I was still, as my facebook friend had warned, trying to get “back home.” Why? And how could I, now that I was destined only for “La France Mystique”?
Then it dawned on me. My saintly heroine was pointing out something to me. My original conversion to the Catholic Church came on the heels of my engagement to my wife, Josey, in my home town. My first introduction to the Queen of Heaven was in the Church of St. Peter’s in my home town. My introduction to Ste. Thérèse de Lisieux, the 19th century French Carmelite nun who introduced me to Jeanne d’Arc had occurred in Guymon (or at least from a book found in that Catholic book store in Amarillo we always visited). My trip to France in high school with my classmates, whereby I first saw Jeanne’s statue at the island fortress of Mont-Saint-Michel, took place while I was still in Guymon. I looked back over the many writings I had produced during these recent years. I noted that in my earliest accounts I mention being grounded in the contemplative spirit during my youth while looking out on the high plains that surrounded my home town.
It became obvious. I was new, but I was the same. The seed of the Kingdom had been with me all the time that I was growing up in Guymon. I left that town and those friends, in a temporal sense, only to ride headlong to the gates of hell. I then rode, in a mystical sense, through ancient Christendom with Jeanne d’Arc only to find the Kingdom of Heaven. And I have now come home to my native town and my friends, at least in spirit if not in time and space, only to discover that both home and the Kingdom had been available to me my entire life.
I’m new, but I’m the same. A new man, yet the same man. But NOW a whole man, thanks to the King of this Kingdom, the Queen, and Sainte Jeanne d’Arc with her ever faithful heavenly sister Thérèse. Most importantly though, I am home. Home where both forward meets what is behind in what we might call “the Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.”
Vive la France Mystique, y’all.
StM

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The life and sacred duty of a Counter-Revolutionary in the Catholic and Royal Army of America

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

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The Counter-Revolutionary (CR) of the Catholic and Royal Army of America (CRAA) finds him or herself with the gravest and noblest of duties. That duty is the defense and propagation of an entire Kingdom. And this is not just any kingdom, but it is the Kingdom of God that has been freely given by the Father in the Holy Spirit through the infinite merits of Jesus Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection. Thus, as Christ’s Kingdom is ultimately “not of this earth” but is first and foremost in the hearts of men, the CR’s ultimate work must be on persevering in Faith, Hope, and Love to the end as Our Lord has warned we must do. For, this is the glory we seek in union with Christ through His Church which is His Body, His Bride, and the seed of the Kingdom of God on earth. The defense and propagation of the Kingdom mean exactly the defense and propagation of the Church.
This is why the CRAA is said to be the counter-part to The Dove and Rose devotion to Saints Joan of Arc and Thérèse of Lisieux; that is, The Dove and Rose is our particular well-spring of grace granted by the authority of the most holy and glorious Queen of Heaven and earth, the Virgin Mary, as our manifestation of True and Perfect Devotion to her Immaculate Heart. Yes, there are many manifestations of grace in the Kingdom, but the CR discovers a particular affection for the saintly duo of Joan of Arc and Thérèse of Lisieux in their constant friendship, sisterly care, and patronage. This is why the CRAA is under the patronage of the Dove and Rose, St. Joan and St. Thérèse. We are children of the Queen according to the True and Perfect Devotion to Mary as prescribed by St. Louis de Montfort, and St. Joan and St. Thérèse are gifts from God to help us mature in her service for the glory of Christ her Son.
Thus, the driving force of our “Army” is nothing less than Love: Love for God, for the Kingdom, for Jesus Christ the King, Mary the Queen, and all the angels and saints. We defend our Kingdom with our very lives in the same manner that we defend our own temporal families. No one would leave their family unprotected against criminal elements. The more we love, the more we are willing to give our life in defense of that which we love. Contrary to the spirit of the world (which is the spirit of Anti-Christ) which tells us that there is nothing of worth for which to die, particularly not something as immaterial and “relative” as a “belief,” the CR knows that it is precisely the willingness to die for the Kingdom that gives us life. That for which one is willing to die is what gives life, not that for which one is willing to live. We are battle-ready not out of hatred for anything before us but out of love for that which is behind us (Chesterton). The world does not comprehend this particular spirit because the world does not believe and tries to intimidate others into not believing as well. The CR and the spirit of the world are irreparably at enmity one with the other. There is our need for an Army to defend.

Yet, the CR will not hide away his cherished Kingdom. The goal is not to remain in secret, hoping never to be found. Remember our Lord’s parable about the coins. The one who hid away his free gift was the one who ended up wailing and nashing his teeth. Like any joyful member of a wonderful family, the CR, while always prepared to defend, is actually most desirous of sharing! We want to share what is most treasured in our hearts! We are emanating the spirit of the Kingdom with joy, for the Kingdom’s spirit is our spirit. We propagate the Kingdom for love of Jesus Christ in His Church, the Virgin Mary who is the Mother of God and the Mother of the Church, along with our love for St. Joan and St. Thérèse, indeed, for love of all the angels and saints. The driving force is Love, and this is why we not only defend but propagate.
With this in mind, we set out to make some basic recommendations regarding the life of a Counter-Revolutionary:
(1) The CR should follow the “Life of a Knight of the Dove and Rose” which is essentially the life of any Catholic devoted to Jesus through Mary and to authentic Catholic spirituality in obedience to the Holy Father our Pope and the Bishops in union with him. What is unique to the “Life of a Dove and Rose Knight” is our heart-felt, transforming love for and devotion to our saintly sisters and patronesses, Joan and Thérèse.
(2) The CR should “seek first the Kingdom” foremost in his heart and see to it that with the grace of God through the merits of Jesus Christ the Kingdom grows “from a mustard seed” into a beautiful tree with branches fit for the birds of the air. He or she should sense St. Joan and St. Thérèse guiding him or her down the Trail of the Dogmatic Creed to the center of Mary’s Immaculate Heart which is mystically the Kingdom of God where Jesus reigns in glory. Defense and propagation of the Kingdom must first be led through one’s personal life.
(3) The CR should not only be ever ready to testify to joy of heart but he or she must make that testimony the very breath by which they live. Our testimony is not what we believe; our testimony is who we are. The world should know from the CR’s speech, actions, and spirit that he or she is a counter-revolutionary.
(4) The CR should expect to be hated and persecuted just as our Savior was hated and persecuted. The CR must carry the spirit of willing martyrdom just as our Savior did in going to His crucifixion. There is no other way than that of the Cross. The CR seeks no other way.
(5) The CR lives only to die for the Kingdom that is “not of this earth.” Thus, through Christ’s reign in the hearts of men, we seek the temporal establishment of the Father’s Will and Kingdom “on earth as it is in Heaven” through the form most befitting its defense and propagation, the Catholic Monarchy, while at the same time never losing sight that the temporal order will soon pass. We have no desire to establish a kingdom of Jesus on earth, for our Lord Himself has firmly instructed us that His Kingdom is not here. Yet, we know that it is our sacred duty to water, nurture, and bring to sunlight the seed of the Kingdom of Heaven as she grows through space and time to her fulfillment at Christ’s Second Coming. We seek to do as He commands by praying that “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.”
Amen. Come Lord Jesus.
“To Jesus through Mary in the friendship and sisterly care of Sts Joan and Thérèse!”
StM
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What is the Catholic and Royal Army of America?

Posted on April 17, 2012 by
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“A day will come when the enemies of Christ will boast of having conquered the whole world. They will say, ‘Christians cannot escape now!’ But a great King will arise to fight the enemies of God. He will defeat them, and peace will be given to the world, and the Church will be freed from her anxieties.”
– (St. Methodius, 4th century, perhaps the earliest in the long line of prophecies regarding the Great Catholic King who will restore the Church before the reign of Anti-Christ)
“Take notice that the Kingdom of the Franks is predestined by God for the defense of the Roman Church which is the only true Church of Christ. This kingdom shall someday be great among the kingdoms of the earth, and shall embrace all the limits of the Roman Empire, and shall submit all other kingdoms to its own scepter.” 
 - (St. Rémi, 5th century)
“Certain Doctors truly say that one of the Kings of the Frankish Empire shall possess it in its entirety which King shall live in the last time and shall be the greatest and last of Kings.”
– (St. Anselm, 11th century)
“Peace will return to the world when the White Flower again takes possession of the throne of France”
– (St. Hidlegard, notably German, 12th century)
“The French people will ask for the good King, he who was chosen by God. He will come, this savior whom God has spared for France, this king who is not wanted now because he is dear to God’s Heart. He will ascend to the throne; he will free the Church and reassert the Pope’s rights.”
– (The Ecstatic of Tours, 19th century)
“Is not France ‘the tribe of Juda of the New Covenant’ (St. Pius X)?”
– (L’Abbé de Nantes, 21st century)
“They (the prophecies by the Church Fathers and other, later, great saints regarding the Great Monarch) all contain prophecy of:
(1) Toward the end of time but well prior to anti-Christ, the world will be very troubled
(2) which troubles are ended for a time by a great temporal ruler, a great Monarch or King
(3) who works closely with a very great and saintly Pope
(4) together they reestablish peace in the world which lasts for a significant period of time
(5) at the end of which time the people go bad because they cannot withstand the temptations that come with continued peace and prosperity
(6) as a result of their becoming worse than ‘ever before’ Anti-Christ comes”
– (Desmond Birch, “Trial, Tribulation, and Triumph – Before, During, and After Anti-Christ”)
The Catholic and Royal Army of America (CRAA) is under the co-patronage of St. Joan of Arc and St. Thérèse of Lisieux.
The CRAA is the political, social, and cultural counterpart to The Dove and Rose devotion to St. Joan of Arc and St. Thérèse of Lisieux. As The Dove and Rose devotion to St. Joan of Arc and St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus is a means for uniting ourselves to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the center of Mary’s Immaculate Heart which is mystically the Kingdom of God, the CRAA is the necessary means for the defense and propogation of that same Kingdom.
The CRAA is a counter-revolutionary (CR) organization devoted to the defense of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, which is the seed of the Kingdom of God on earth, and to a revival of the cultural heritage of Christendom in the United States of America and, indeed, in all of the West. The CRAA recognizes that nations play various and unique roles in the divine economy of almighty God and that, whereas America has a prominent role in that plan, it is to the Kingdom of France (now in exile under “the Republic”) that belongs the supreme title of “Eldest Daughter of the Church” and the “tribe of Judah of the New Covenant” who, by prophetic destiny, will lead the defense of the Church and of Western Civilization through a Great Monarch who will come in alliance with a saintly and powerful Pope.
The CRAA, however, does not rely for her work strictly on private prophecies, even those of the great Church Fathers and other holy saints. She is, as her name implies, inspired by the martyrs of the Catholic and Royal Army of the Vendée, “l’Armée Catholique et Royale,” who led the counter-revolution opposing the blasphemous French Revolution. As with the noble Vendéans, we are devoted first and foremost to the authentic teachings of the Catholic Church in union with our Holy Father the Pope and the Bishops in union with him. As with the noble Vendéans, we are the children of the most holy and glorious Virgin Mary through the teachings of St. Louis de Montfort. As with all counter-revolutionaries, we are driven in an unyielding sense of Christian fidelity and charity by the influence of St. Joan of Arc, “Sainte Jeanne d’Arc.”
The CRAA recognizes that each CR must first be converted in heart, mind, and soul to Jesus Christ as He is known in the fullness of public revelation in His Roman Catholic Church. The CR must be consecrated totally and without reserve to the most holy and blessed Virgin Mary. The CR is strongly encouraged to consecrate him or herself to the patronage of St. Joan of Arc and St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the secondary co-patronesses of France, as a means to enter most deeply and meaningfully into the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the mystical Kingdom of God, where Christ sits enthroned in all of His glory. The CR must be willing to endure the loss of all things, even his or her own life, for the cause of Jesus Christ our King, the most holy and glorious Virgin Mary our Queen, and the entire Kingdom of God.
The CRAA recognizes that on the earthly stage, replete with a cacophony of confusing and contradictory philosophies, there are really only two apocalyptic players, Christ and Anti-Christ. Christ is truly man and truly God as the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, the only Savior of the human race, and the One through Whom all things were created. Through time and space, He draws all men and all of creation to Himself in magnificent order, beauty, and glory, to be fulfilled at His Second Coming when He will judge the living and the dead, and His Kingdom will have no end. Anti-Christ is Satan personified, whose spirit roams the world with a legion of fallen angels seeking the ruin of every human soul. He will be the spirit guiding the Anti-Christ of history when that awful moment arrives.
The CRAA, along with every CR, knows that with the two apocalyptic players come their temporal forces, Christ’s being that of obedience to the will of the Father, moral and civil order, peace, happiness, beauty, and authentic life-giving culture, and with the Anti-Christ’s being a Revolution of disordered blasphemy and vulgarity against the aforementioned. The Revolution seeks to destroy through any means possible, notably through the vulgar and disordered passions of man, the advancement of Christ’s beauty, order, and peace in time and space. The counter-revolution is the pro-active response to end the Revolution and to establish the reign of Christ in the hearts of all men and women, and, through their hearts, to establish Christ’s reign of beauty and order in the temporal affairs of mankind.
The CRAA recognizes the Revolution as a phenomenon that predates the created order when Satan rebelled against God with his vulgar hosts. The Revolution was then inculcated like a virus as Orignal Sin into the human race at the fall of mankind through the temptation of the evil one. The Revolution has shown itself consistently throughout the ages. However, the CRAA points to four more modern key manifestations of the Revolution which are driving most of the work of the spirit of Anti-Christ in the world today and which are preparing the way for the Anti-Christ of history:
(1) The Protestant Revolution (we do not refer to it as “Reformation,” for it reformed nothing; it was nothing less than a Revolution against Christ’s Church)
(2) The French Revolution
(3) The Bolshevik Revolution
(4) The “Sixties” hippy Revolution (which includes atheism, secularism, moral and religious relativism, “spiritual but not religious” nonsense, and the New Age)
All of these Revolutions have acted as a flaming ramrod against the great castle walls of the Kingdom of God, the seed on earth of which is the Holy Roman Catholic Church.
The CRAA is loyal to the Pope in Rome and the Bishops in union with him.
The CRAA is very traditionally minded, though loyal to the Second Vatican Council. She is neither Lefebvrist nor Sede Vacantist. The CRAA is more aligned in thought with the late l’Abbé de Nantes, who, while very traditionalist and critical of Vatican II, nevertheless remained in union with the Church.
The CRAA does, however, still see in today’s Church the prophetic fulfillment of the “counter-Church,” the “strange big church that was being built there (in Rome) with nothing holy in it; everything was being done according to human reason” (Bl Ann Catherine Emmerick), which has been established inside the walls of the Kingdom of God through Anti-Christ forces. These are the Revolutionaries who treacherously call themselves “Catholic” while refusing to obey Christ in His Church. They are the abortionists, homosexual rights advocates, women ordination supporters, religious syncretists, moral relativists, those who propose vulgar liturgical practices alongside novel, Masonic and Protestant doctrines, in sum, nothing more than Satan’s Revolutionaries working from the inside to destroy the Church. The counter-church has been established, not through Vatican II, but in the aftermath of Vatican II by those internal Revolutionaries who have purposely created confusion while blasphemously implementing novelties that are not even of Vatican II.
The CRAA, for the all the reasons listed above, is wholly devoted to the Kingdom of France and to the restoration of the French Monarchy, in addition to being devoted to the restoration of Catholicism and the culture of Christendom in America through a Catholic Monarchy.
The CRAA, then, is Catholic (of the traditional mind, though in union with the post-VII Church), Royalist, and counter-revolutionary.

With the above in place, the CRAA poses the following position statement:
The CRAA supports the institution of a Catholic Monarchy for the United States, in the model of confederate/feudal Europe during the reigns of such noble Kings as St. Louis IX of France or even of later examples of glorious sovereign leadership such as Queen Isabel of Castile.
Though using the term “Monarch” rather than simply “King and Queen,” the latter is more descriptive of our model. It is not the authoritarian regalism of Louis XIV, though we honor and respect him in his role as defender of the Catholic Faith (ultimately) and of France, the “Eldest Daughter of the Church.” Our model is the more feudal one of a most Christian Catholic King and Queen who are subject to the moral authority of the Church and who rule relatively independent territories more as suzerains than as monarchs.
The Catholic Monarchy is our greatest hope for protecting our life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. The Catholic Monarchy would be the safeguard of local democracies, the rights of free speech and religion (“within due limits” as per Vatican II, Pius XII, Leo XIII, Pius IX, and Gregory XVI) and of free association.
The Catholic Monarchy is our greatest hope for protecting and promoting free enterprise, the right of local private ownership of property, and against multi-national corporations and globalization.
The Catholic Monarchy is our greatest hope for building a unified, high culture of arts, education, and language that seek the ennobling of its citizenry.
Though the idea of a Catholic Monarch in the United States seems fantastically unreal at this time, the CRAA holds that it is completely realistic that she could nevertheless become a voice from the “far right” of the otherwise completely vulgar and liberal American political spectrum.
Let us strive to be that voice of true reason. Perhaps, one day, if the Republic does indeed collapse under the weight of her sins and liberalism, while she is facing a tyrannical, secular, atheistic dictator, the idea of a Catholic Monarch to save her will not seem so far-fetched after all.
StM
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