I'm going to Greetings, parish orphans and retrogrades, Timothy Gordon here with another episode of Rules for Retrogrades.

Today, I'm joined by Mr. Tyler Rowley, author of the compilation book, because of our fathers.

It's all about the crisis of fatherhood, particularly with regard to Catholicism.

Tyler, it's a joy to have you with me.

Thanks for coming on today.

Yeah, thank you for having me on.

Really appreciate it.

What a topic, and I'm addressing the same topic

fatherlessness practical fatherlessness not necessarily biological fatherlessness I'm addressing

it in a book that's coming out in January of February with Sophia press called

no Christian feminism but I'm addressing it from another angle.

You got together 23 authors, right, and got the perspectives on their biographies with regard

to fathers.

Can you tell me what gave you the idea and what the upshot, what the goal is of your

approach, which is a really good approach, commendable? Right. So the idea, I told the story a lot,

because it's a very specific event that happened to give me the exact idea. But some people

might be familiar with Father Gerald Murray out of the

Archdiocese of New York City. And he was talking on Catholic radio one day. And he was talking

all about his father because he had just, he had just actually buried his father the week before.

So he's talking all about, you know, beautifully about his dad. And he's told one specific story.

When he was seven years

old, he noticed that his father was going to mass before he was going to work. You know, a regular Tuesday, you know, seven-year-old kid has no idea that his dad's going to church every single day before he goes to work. So he questions him about it, and he says, he's kind of flabbergastedbergasted he says what dad why do you go to church every

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