Greetings, Parish Orphins and Retrogrades.

Happy Monday, if such a thing exists.

Today, I come to you with a speculative story.

Some of you might have referred to coverage by commentators in the Catholic media as even tabloid type story.

I don't think that's what this is. You Parish Orphans and Retrogrades know that

we avoid the tabloid hyper speculative nature of some of the other channels, or we try to anyway.

I figured this is worthy of your attention. At the Nymphenburg Palace in Munich on January the 18th, two days ago, to mark the 95th

birthday of Benedict the 16th, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, whatever you want to call him,

Archbishop Gair Gonswine, who has a special relationship with Benedict, that of his personal secretary and longtime friend,

will go into Gonswine a little bit more later.

He gave a short address in Nymphenburg, and in the course of this short address, he broke into bitter tears, bitter, sobbing, weeping

tears, three different times and had to stop his short address about Pope Benedict

the 16th, three separate times, each for 20 to 22 seconds of pausing. I'll show you that video

in a short second. But first I want to just make a couple distinctions. First, the reason

judging by the spot in his speech at which he broke down, that he broke down, is evidently

the retirement of Pope Benedict the 16th, which remains, I don't care who you are, any side

of the church, left, right, middle, benevolentist, I don't know, set of a contest, Catholic that repudiates

Beneplenism and set of a contism.

The retirement of Benedict the 16th now from nine and a quarter years later is odd,

nine and a third years later.

It's very odd. It's very unexplained and we have not got

but a fraction of the story. So I'm going to give you a brief overview of the three breakdowns

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