Greetings, Parish Orphins and Retrogrades. Happy Easter Monday. I hope your Easter was phenomenal.

Now, I come to you after not a ton of shows over the last two and a half weeks. You understand why,

because the world is strange, macroscopically, microscopically, we've all been undergoing our own

stuff here at Rules for Retrogrades.

We have been embattled.

This includes tons of stuff that's happened over the past month from late March to Easter.

And we're going to catch up on an important happening from about a month ago that everyone missed because of the consecration of Russia and

Ukraine. It was the promulgation of a new constitution, a nine years promised constitution

under Pope Francis called predicate Evangelium, which means proclaiming the gospel or preaching the gospel,

which those of us who have criticized Francis over the last nine years say, isn't proselytizing a sin?

And now Francis is making all of these relatively radical changes in the name of preaching the

gospel. I'm going to give you a brief summary view

of what this one document accomplished. It was originally promulgated like a month ago, almost to the

day, and it was right before the consecration of Russia. So for one thing, the congregation for the doctrine of

the faith formerly called the Holy Office, the highest of all of the dikastries, has been demoted,

more or less. Back in February, Pope Francis promised that it would be broken into two sections,

doctrine and discipline. It's no longer really the Supreme Holy Office, proclaiming the gospel, also makes it

such that lay women and lay men can oversee as prefect Vatican offices.

Also, it takes these offices from being called the congregations, it was originally

16 congregations, to decasteries. This is a more administrative, secular term, congregation,

formerly called the sacred congregations before JP2 changed that and then just called the congregations,

now called the de castries. We'll talk about that a little bit called the congregations, now called the DeCastries.

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