What's up, parish orphans and retrogrades?

Happy Wednesday, whatever that means.

Today we will be talking about an old bet, settling that old bet, and whatever the ramifications of possible lady deacons and eradication of priestly celbacy in the Roman Catholic Church may be as called by Cardinal

Willett here on Rules for Retrogrades.

I've got with me a friend, Mr. Steve Schojeck of 1 Peter 5 fame.

What's up, Steve?

How are you, man?

How's it going, rooster turkey?

Yeah, yeah, nice.

That's code language. And we use a lot of code language here on this channel. I use words like, well, what are some of the words? Maybe we don't use it. Well, I mean, why didn't use the code language for Wednesday? You didn't call it hump day. I mean, no, I know. It's just to call it hump day. That sounds so dirty. It really does. It's always, as everyone knows, I'm, uh, I'm a pro-clutcher. And, uh, that, that scandalizes me. No, I, you're, you're, uh, that's what I would put in your bio, pro-clutter. Yeah. But I mean, so here's the thing, man.

I want to talk about this in a second.

I got to make a plug or two first.

But we had this longstanding wager with Eric Sammons, right? Now of Crisis Editor.

And you and I, we're on the same side of it and after the shamazon synod

after carita amazonia the post-synodal epistolic exotation failed to you know specifically

reify anything like women deacons and, and eradication of male

celibacy? You and I were like, oh, give it a year. And then, thank you very much, beer bug. You

know, 2020 happened. And we were like, well, you know, that's, it would have happened without

this year. Yeah, you get a mul, you know, that's, it would have happened without this year.

Yeah, you get a mulgown up by this thing. But so, so now Cardinal Willett's calling, according to

Crux magazine yesterday, calling a some sort of summit, which looks like it's going to readdress this.

What, what do you say? Well, I mean, what I'm reading here,

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