Greetings, Parish, Your Offens, and Retro Grades.

I hope you are excellent today.

I've got my most special guest of all, Miss Stephanie Gordon, with me, responding to an attack

on her book, and to some extent, I'm sad to say on her character and her formation in the

faith, by my old place of clearing

my writings, the clearinghouse Catholic World Report, which formerly I thought was a good spot.

Steph, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry this happened.

They got me out of my pregnant jammies for this.

Oh, no.

It was totally. I'm expecting a lot of hits. We're actually waiting

to do a show of this magnitude so we can kind of let some of the critiques come out so we can

kind of handle it all at the same time. So here we go. Go ready for this? I'm going to be doing

the link, so excuse me a second while I'm looking over here. Let me just say this.

Parishurphins and retrogrades, a lot of you cats out there, you send me your books, manuscripts,

I try to read them when I can.

I try to give comment where I can.

Those of you who have interacted with me on this, under this heading, you know I do my best,

and I contact you. Let me just this, under this heading, you know I do my best and I contact you.

Let me just say, think twice. Before you read a book, write a book, particularly nonfiction,

think about whether or not you want, you mean it. And if you do mean it, then by all means,

write it and like Nietzsche says says write in blood right play for keeps because

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