Happy Sunday, parish orphans and retrogrades. I come to you live today on a Sunday when I don't normally do so, because just breaking now is an endorsement from Pope Francis, a shocking one that we're redefining shocking by the week, aren't we, in the eighth and ninth year of this strange pontificate. National Catholic

Register reports that a letter from Pope Francis expresses support for Father James Martin's

controversial LGBT ministry, whatever that means, it is the ministry that the USCB, tepidus,

these guys are, has already repudiated.

And we've been back and forth with news stories over the last three years over whether or not Pope Francis, in fact, supports James Martin.

It's a bit of kabuki theater.

This seems definitive.

This letter from Pope Francis to James Martin that was translated and published by James Martin himself.

It was originally written in Spanish.

Seems definitive that Pope Francis, of course, I'm not shocked.

Most of my viewers probably aren't shocked. Does, in fact, support the New Way's ministry of James Martin.

Let me read you the first couple big ideas in this article on National Catholic Register.

Father Martin's ministry has become increasingly controversial, as you know,

because of this incremental departure by him from Catholic doctrine. Guys, what weird times we live in,

you know? That's all I can say. Jeez, that's all I can say. Here's how it opens. In a personal

letter sent to Jesuit Father James Martin, dated June the 21st, Pope Francis expressed support

for his controversial ministry and encouraged him to, quote, continue this way. Now, before I forget, this is the first paragraph, he's going to end with the Latin, sorry,

with the Spanish expression, Todos E. Totas, which is a gender inclusive usage,

which would normally just be totos, which means all.

Men include women in this sense.

I would also point out that the R-A-E,

the univocal Spanish, worldwide Spanish language oversight committee, has rejected Todos E. Totas. It is gender-inclusive language. And it's really, really bad stuff. So Pope Francis has used gender inclusive language that has been rejected by his mother tongue itself. This is the equivalent of Oxford English

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