Vatican employee caught messing with Wikipedia entry of TaylorRMarshall

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The nature of Wikipedia means people can make changes. That’s why it’s an unreliable source. (The original listing certainly wasn’t accurate either)
 
Apparently whoever made the change thought that it could be done anonymously. But he was wrong. Wikipedia tracks the changes and where they came from.
 
Well, the revision got one thing right; Dr. Marshall does not have a Catholic theology degree. His background is philosophy. But I believe he’s pretty open about that information. 🤷‍♂️
 
That the IP address was from Vatican City doesn’t necessarily mean it was a Vatican employee. It could have been a seminarian. Or maybe someone wanted to spoof a Vatican IP address just to watch Taylor go into conspiracy mode.
 
Thank you for posting these JimG.

Whoever did this (apparently from a Vatican IP address), it was the wring thing to do.

The Game Has Changed — And So Must We​

. . . On Thursday, October 24, 2019, a disinformation and slander campaign was launched by what appears to be the Vatican Department of Telecommunications against
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Dr. Taylor Marshall, a conservative Catholic author and YouTube talk-show host. Presumably, based on the form of the attack, the reason was Dr. Marshall’s traditional Catholic views. It appears that somebody in the Vatican Department of Telecommunications is really upset with him, and this is likely to be a precursor of future strategies some within the Vatican may deploy against opponents to the unorthodox changes Leftist clergy are trying to force upon the Catholic faith.

The following is a summary of this disinformation and slander campaign as it currently exists today. The following changes were made to Dr. Taylor Marshall’s Wikipedia page…

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Apparently, unbeknownst to the person who made those changes, Wikipedia keeps a public record of all the IP addresses from the computers where those changes came from. . . .

. . . Now that doesn’t mean that Bishop Alzaga did it himself, . . . .

. . . . Even Pope Francis has said “they are Catholic.” We’ve seen this in the calumnious treatment of ChurchMilitant.Com, LifeSiteNews.Com, and reporters like Edward Pentin of the National Catholic Register. We’ve witnessed good bishops forced to resign over Leftist media smear campaigns. All of this, over the last two decades, may just be child’s play compared to what’s coming. If edits to Dr. Marhsall’s Wikipedia page are any indications of what to expect, they mean business this time, and they may be supported from people at the very top of the Vatican’s chain of command. . . .
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https://completechristianity.blog/2019/10/24/the-game-has-changed-and-so-must-we/

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That was interesting. One of the elitist attacks against Marshall was an implicit alleged lack of quailfication.

They are pretending Marshall is unqualified because he is trained in Philosophy instead of Theology . . .

. . . But the attacker against Marshall didn’t even give Taylor his Philosophy training (in the excerpted change).

They just said Marshall didn’t have a theology degree (“without a Catholic Theology degree” capitalizing the “T” in theology).

Praying for protection for Dr. Marshall and all others subject to this kind of thing.
 
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Looks like someone cleaned out the shenanigans.

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Glad it was screen-captured for insights into how this type of artificial discrediting works (so people are less likely to fall for it again in the future).
 
Cathoholic said:
a disinformation and slander campaign was launched by what appears to be the Vatican Department of Telecommunications against Dr. Taylor Marshall,
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I think that’s overstating things by quite a bit. One random, anonymous person modifying his Wikipedia page does not constitute a “slander campaign” from a department in the Vatican.

I really wish we could purge this kind of hyperbole from the Catholic blogoshpere. It just perpetuates this us vs. them squabbling. It’s not conducive to anyone’s growth in holiness.
 
Joe_5859 (concerning the Complete Christianity blogosphere post) . . . .
I think that’s overstating things by quite a bit.
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Yeah. I kind of thought that when I read it too.

But then I thought about the IP address of where it came from.

And it doesn’t look good.

If it was authentic, this suggests people within the Vatican or at least with access to their computers are doing this.

If the IP address was phony then someone went out of their way to manipulate it like it WAS from the Vatican . . . That likewise suggests pretty bad intent.

I’m OK either way.

“Complete Christianity” vrs. you feeling it was out of line.

I’m good either way.
 
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I’ve had people from Vatican City visit my (very low traffic and seldom updated) blog, too. At first I got excited, but then I realized there are a whole lot of people that work there besides bishops and cardinals. So I guess that sort of makes this not that intriguing of a story to me. I can’t imagine any higher-ups in the Church know or care who Taylor Marshall is.

To me, the most likely culprit is some 20-something American seminarian studying in Rome who doesn’t like Taylor Marshall.
 
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I’ve had people from Vatican City visit my (very low traffic and seldom updated) blog, too. At first I got excited, but then I realized there are a whole lot of people that work there besides bishops and cardinals.
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Hey I’ve visted your blog too and it’s great.

Keep up the fine work!
 
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