Hello, America. Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. Well, I'll get to the news here just a minute. Welcome, welcome. Some of you are stepping out. I am on Wednesday headed out for some Christmas vacation. So we'll be loose with the phones today and tomorrow. So you can shape the show before we head out.

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Wow. Wasn't expecting to do this. We have to begin with what is apparently the biggest news of the day. No, no, it's not me.

Let me pull out my phone here just so you can see it's not me.

So I've got a breaking news alert from CNN.

There's one from the New York Times.

There's one from the Wall Street Journal, one from Bloomberg, one from the Associated Press,

one from Reuters, one from the Washington Post.

I got push alerts from every major media outlet.

The Pope has decided to bless same-sex relationships, according to the press.

Let me pull up one of these again so you can get it.

Pope Francis formally permits Roman Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples in major shift in Vatican doctrine, says CNN.

New York Times, Pope Francis is letting priests bless same-sex couples, a major step in his effort to make the church more welcoming to

LGBTQ Catholics. Where's the plus, you bigots? There's no plus at the end of LGBTQ. So

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