Greetings, parish orphans, and retrogrades.

After a little rest, a little break, following that intense papal conclave coverage of nearly

two weeks ago now on a few follow-up shows, I'm refreshed. I'm back with you. It's another

episode of Rules for Retrogrades,

and it's the first episode that is going to fully dive into, I think, a doctrinal issue

covered by Pope Leo the 14th. That's not just window dressing. So so far, we've had a little

under two weeks of pure window dressing.

I guess it's two weeks tomorrow.

Pure window dressing.

Now, what's he wearing?

You know, what are the songs like that he's singing?

What are the trappings of the name and what the name might stand for?

Or what the name on a kind of public relations interpretation

might stand for. I want to talk about the biggest doctrinal issue, the most dear doctrinal

issue to Cardinal Provost's heart, and I want to examine whether or not that sizable, prominent

doctrinal issue is going to be carried into his pontificate as Leo the 14th. That issue is,

I'm sad to say it. I truly am. The consistent ethic of life, the soft heresy of Cardinal Bernardin's

seamless garment, false teaching on the death penalty, which was very, very near and dear

to Cardinal Provost's heart. He's talked about it more than any other doctrinal

issue, and it's connected to

synodality. So that's going to be today's show. It's going to be what has Prevost said about

this as Archbishop of Chiclio, Peru. You know, how much has he owned the topic? Because you

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