Marie Carré (1905-1984) was a

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nurse who later in life converted from

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to become

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. She is known primarily in the English-speaking world for having published a purported

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entitled ''AA-1025: The Memoirs of an Anti-Apostle'', which some consider to be

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propaganda.

Life

Carré grew up a Calvinist

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. In 1964, she converted to

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and became a

much later in life. A picture of Carré was made available on the Internet by ''Chiré: Diffusion de la Pensee Francaise''.

''AA-1025: The Memoirs of an Anti-Apostle''

Carré claimed that, while working as a nurse in a

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hospital in the late 1960s, a severely injured man, who had a

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look, was brought in after being in a car accident. Carré alleged that she tried to communicate with the man to ask him some questions but he didn't or couldn't respond. She even tried to get him to answer her questions by blinking his eyes but he didn't. The man survived for a few hours before he succumbed to his injuries. Having no form of identification Carré was instructed to go through his belongings in order to possibly identify him. She did not succeed in discovering his name, but she did allegedly discover in his briefcase a 100-page-typed

. She began reading the papers partly to find some information to identify him and partly out of curiosity. The memoir claimed that he was an

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agent of the

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ordered to infiltrate the

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by becoming a

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and to advance

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ideas through a teaching position that would undermine the main teachings of the Church during the

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in subtle ways, by turn of phrase methods. The document gave details and even told of a murder of a priest he had committed in order to get his way. No one ever claimed his belongings and Carré eventually decided to publish the memoir. It was printed in France in May 1972 and eventually was translated into several other languages.

Criticism

In a 2002 critique of Catholic

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for ''

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'' magazine,

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wrote: The article was taken down in 2016 by ''Crisis'' editor Michael Warren Davis upon the request of '' The Remnant'' editor Michael Matt, though it can still be found on the

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through the

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. Matt had described the article as "

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", calling it "uncharitable in the extreme, if not

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" and a "slanderous, SPLC-accommodating rant". Catholic philosopher and theologian

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argues that: Von Hildebrand received a detailed response by Miesel, who stated that:

Death

Carré died in France in 1984.

Bibliography

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