Today in the Episcopal Consecrations, what does history actually show about consecrating

bishops without Rome's approval? Father Palco breaks down the history and the facts.

We could go ahead, just do it ourselves.

But we're asking for it.

The very fact that we're asking for the thing that we need

through the normal channels, even if in an extraordinary circumstance,

I think shows the deference that we ought to have.

If you don't think there's a crisis in the church,

you need only look at the fact

that we've been asking for a meeting with the Pope. And despite the fact that we've been asking

with relative silence for a while, we have a dressed up woman running around the Vatican

giving blessings as if she were a real bishop. And no objection to that really.

If we don't see in those kinds of things a real state of necessity,

I don't know what's going to show us that.

Father Palco, good to see you.

It's been a little while,

and this is the first time we've had you here on the Consecrations series.

You have been, you just finished a priest retreat, is that right?

Finished priest retreat, finished a priest meeting, finished Holy Week. Now we're, now we're ready

and raring to go in the midst of all these things to add my small contribution to this series,

which I think has gone really well so far. A lot of really

interesting insights. Just recently, I sort of, I can re-plug some of the series. We just,

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