The American Vendée Network

There is no substitute for Truth when it comes to taking up your pitchfork against the revolution, both inside and outside the Church.

Happy Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe!

Some of you may have noticed that I’ve started a new publication on Substack called the American Vendée Network. This was done in an effort to emphasize the refocusing of efforts to expose and combat the modernist revolution within the Church, but also as a means to extend our outreach into the world against the revolutionary liberal system that seems to infect every aspect of our lives.

There are plenty of content creators and reporters who provide us with the daily news and information coming out of the Vatican and world capitals. And many commentators help us understand it and put the larger pieces together to see the bigger revolutionary program within and outside the Church.

The American Vendée Network or AVN is designed to build on those efforts.

We need warriors and defenders of the faith NOW—those willing to fight the revolution, not feed it. We also need to show not just those mired in the politics of the Church but our friends and family out in the world that there is such a thing as authentic, or Apostolic, Catholicism.

Apostolic Catholicism is that faith of our ancestors dating back to the time of Christ, which has preserved and handed down to us the deposit of the faith, the Truth, so that we may know God’s revelation and gain eternal life. Some also call it Traditional Catholicism.

The stakes are too high for us, families, and communities to just “zip it” and pray behind the closet doors in the name of servile obedience, even though Our Lord warned us against the faithless hirelings and wolves that seek to devour us.

This battle for the soul of the Church and the world, in the face of the greatest crisis in the Church since the time of Christ, is one that we did not ask for, but find ourselves in the middle of.

Our present situation reminded me of those faithful peasants in France during the French Revolution. A group of French faithful who simply desired to practice the faith as handed down to them in a community subject to the Kingship of Christ and a faithful king.

What is the Vendée?

The name refers to the uprising that occurred in the Vendée region of France during the French Revolution between 1793 and 1796. The uprising is often characterized as a “counter-revolutionary” movement because the goal of the rebellion was to restore not just the Bourbon monarchy, but the Catholic faith in France.

The humble peasants, artisans, farmers, and religious of this rural region of France did not ask for revolution—yet revolution was forced upon them. They simply wanted to be left alone to live the lives that their ancestors, dating back to time immemorial, enjoyed. They lived a life of peace, tradition, and love of God, while they were forced to confront the evil goddess of secular humanism, desperate to overturn a millennium of law, faith and social order.

Sadly, with this overwhelming revolutionary assault on tradition came death, destruction, and genocide. Untrained and poor peasant men of the region bravely led the charge to defend their families and heritage against this effort at systematic destruction at the hands of professional armies. Farms were burned, women were raped, churches destroyed, and priests were executed. Most estimates place the total number of casualties somewhere between 170,000 and 200,000 with no distinction made for military status – men, women and children – were murdered through forced drownings, firing squads and guillotines.

While the United States has so far managed to avoid the social upheaval that a revolutionary mindset inevitably causes (the Civil War was one major exception), those days appear to be numbered as we witness a breakdown of the rule of law, morality, and economic order every day.

We also see the fruits of the same revolution that infected eighteenth-century France, infiltrating the structures of the Catholic Church since Vatican II. We have found ourselves in the midst of a two-front war with high-stakes material and eternal implications.

Catholic Action

In many ways, American society has rejected God’s divine and natural laws and attempted to substitute them with man-centered, secular ideals and institutions. This is also the Vatican II program.

Once we understand the nature of the crisis in the Church, and therefore necessarily in the society at large, which has rejected Christ’s Kingship, then we can begin to discuss what to do.

Sadly, many within the conservative/Traditional movement do not even understand the nature of the crisis in the Church, the divorce between apostolic authority and the faith itself as handed down to us in Tradition.

But for those who do get, like many of those reading this article, we are still left with the open question: what do we do about it?

There is no doubt that shifting the modern moral compass is going to require supernatural intervention. But God often works with and through mortal human beings, just as mortal humans can work within the Church to undermine her mission.

The AVN is dedicated to turning ideas into action to support and defend Christ’s Kingship in the United States of America. This begins with building community and collaboration.

Action can take many forms. Education, evangelization, saturating the culture with Christ-centered activities, etc. There is no specific formula for Catholic Action. It takes different individuals with different talents and abilities to do the work that is needed to inform and influence our family, friends, and the culture.

The AVN seeks to serve as just one support hub for those trying to answer God’s call in their life to restore Christ’s Kingship in their own lives and society. It is also a safe space for your sanity, to confirm that you are not alone and you are not crazy!

So, I invite you to join me on this journey, refocus, and recharge our efforts to expose the revolutionary evils infecting the Church and the world, while at the same time building support among those who “rigidly” cling to the faith of our ancestors and so desperately want to bring others to it.

Our Lady of Guadalupe, Pray for Us