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Conservative Catholics have taken a dislike to Pope Francis, a liberal Pope. But this book is far outside the mainstream of conservative Catholic criticism of Francis. The author, Dr. Taylor Marshall, armed with his degree in philosophy and just over a dozen years as a Catholic convert, proposes that evil conspiracies have succeeded in destroying the doctrine and discipline of the Church from within, not only by the conspiracy that supposedly elected Francis, but also by Vatican II, by the new code of Canon law promulgated by Pope Saint John Paul II, and by many other elements of supposed modernism in the Church. Whenever the Church deviates from the understanding of Dr. Marshall as to the best course, he concludes She has fallen prey to a conspiracy from modernists, Communists, freemasons, and others. The author proposes that faithful Catholics should imitate Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and resist the teachings and decisions of Pope Francis, Vatican II, the Novus Ordo Mass, Ecumenism and anything else contrary to a traditionalist view of Catholicism. The title of the book is its conclusion: evil conspiracies have succeeded in infiltrating the Church and in perverting Her doctrine and discipline. This conclusion contradicts the teaching of Christ that the gates of Hell will never prevail over the indefectible Church. Marshall concludes that the Church has defected, and that the faithful should accept his teachings over those of Vatican II and recent Popes. Please see also the review of this book by Dr. Jeff Mirus at Catholic Culture: Infiltration: An idiot’s guide to the problems of the Church.