| Marie Carré | |
| Birth Name: | Marie |
| Birth Date: | 1905 |
| Birth Place: | Unknown |
| Profession: | Writer |
| Death Date: | c. 1984 |
| Death Place: | Unknown |
Marie Carré (1905-1984) was a French nurse who later in life converted from Protestantism to become Roman Catholic nun. She is known primarily in the English-speaking world for having published a purported memoir entitled AA-1025: The Memoirs of an Anti-Apostle,[1] which some consider to be Traditionalist Catholic propaganda.[2]
Carré grew up a Calvinist Protestant in France.[3] In 1964, she converted to Catholicism and became a nun much later in life. A picture of Carré was made available on the Internet by Chiré: Diffusion de la Pensee Francaise.[4]
Carré claimed that, while working as a nurse in a Paris hospital in the late 1960s, a severely injured man, who had a Slavic 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 memoir. 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 undercover agent of the Soviet Union ordered to infiltrate the Catholic Church by becoming a priest and to advance modernist ideas through a teaching position that would undermine the main teachings of the Church during the Second Vatican Council 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.
In a 2002 critique of Catholic conspiracy theories for Crisis magazine, Sandra Miesel 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 Internet Archive through the Wayback Machine. Matt had described the article as "yellow journalism", calling it "uncharitable in the extreme, if not libelous" and a "slanderous, SPLC-accommodating rant".[5]
Catholic philosopher and theologian Alice von Hildebrand argues that:
Von Hildebrand received a detailed response by Miesel, who stated that:
Carré died in France in 1984.[6]