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Taylor Reed Marshall (born March 29, 1978) is an American Catholic writer and YouTube commentator. A former Episcopal Church priest, Marshall converted to Catholicism and became an advocate of traditionalist Catholicism. He is the author of multiple books, including Infiltration: The Plot to Destroy the Church from Within and his bestselling historical fiction series Sword and Serpent. Marshall currently teaches at the New Saint Thomas Institute, an online Catholic education institute that he founded in 2013 with students from over 70 nations.
In 2023, Marshall announced he was running as a candidate in the 2024 United States presidential election.
Education and priesthood
Marshall graduated magna cum laude from Texas A&M University in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy.[3] After studying at Westminster Theological Seminary and Nashotah House, Marshall was ordained a priest of the Episcopal Church in 2005 by Jack Iker, the Bishop of Fort Worth.[4][5] Marshall had previously served as a youth minister at Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church while an Episcopal deacon.[6]
Shortly thereafter, in 2006, he and his wife converted to Catholicism.[7] In 2009 Marshall earned his Master of Arts degree in philosophy, and in 2011 earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in philosophy, at the University of Dallas with his 600 page doctoral dissertation “Thomas Aquinas on Natural Law and the Twofold Beatitude of Humanity.”[3][8]