Yo, parish orphans and retrogrades. Today I bring to you a special show, special episode of Rules for Retrogrades. I've got Father Chad Ripperger with me to discuss this new document that the DDF has released called the mother of the faithfulful People of God or Amater Populi Fidelis.

And also my closest theological advisor, Andrew Aroscoe. So, Father, it's great to see you again.

It's always good to be with you. And of course, Andrew, you're just here.

Yeah, great to be with you, Father. Thanks. And always, always be back in your house.

And it's great to be here, Tim. And by the way, one of these days, we have to actually meet in person.

That's what I was saying. And we're going to use some of our upcoming appearances as an occasion for that. But we'll get to it.

For today, I hope you're well, Father. I mean, the thing is disappointing because it's so

predictable is what I say, you know. I was remarking to you and Andrew just beforehand. This document

essentially comes out and says, there's nothing wrong with the theology of Mary as the co-redemptrix or the mediatics of all graces,

but they're dangerous uses.

And that's basically what we know the last two and a half pontificates have wanted to say.

And it reminds me of the, you know, Francis's position on the death penalty.

You can't condemn it in principle, but it's pastor of the you know francis's position on the death penalty that you can't condemn it in

principle but it's it's pastorly dangerous we're going to get into a lot of that and we even

andrew has some really really i thought in-depth questions for you today so um a first impression

as a matter of first impression i'd like to hear from you and then then maybe maybe andrew after that but i'd love to hear from you and then maybe Andrew after that, but I'd love to hear from you, Father.

Yeah, actually, Tim, that was exactly what I was looking for when I was reading this document. Are they basically saying that you can't hold to these things doctrinal? And they don't actually say that. They actually say, no, you can't hold that she is the co-redemptrix. Of course, it has to be understood in a very specific way, although they basically say, but it's never appropriate to use that term, which we can get to that. But, but yeah, so that was what I was actually looking for was, are they actually denying these doctrines or not? And because, you know, some of these are actually, at least according to the manual,

it tends to charitable. So you can't, you know, there are some issues, areas of debate, which we can

talk about as we go along. But the actual doctrines were never denied, at least as far as,

that, you know, that these weren't actually true in some sense.

Right, not wrong, but always inadmissible for use.

This seems to be the new normal, the new play in the playbook.

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