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while stocks last delivery orders exclude whipped cream. We wanted to actually address today a little naval gasey in the sense that we're going to be talking about the way media has been working here during the Synodon Synodality.

Colleen, you just got here, but you've been following it from afar and you also wrote this

great analysis piece called Can the Vatican Control the Synod narrative and wanted to just break that

down. I think we've referenced it vaguely and other podcasts, but I'm wondering if you could just start us out with what were we hearing about possible

Synod media regulations before we even thought knew we were going here?

So over the summer there were rumors that the Pope might be thinking about applying the pontifical secret, which is a very like Dan Brown sounding secrecy classification that the Vatican uses in a bunch of cases.

Notably, Pope Francis got rid of the pontifical secret that covered abuse

uh abuse investigation results in 2019 and like that was a big deal people like there to be transparency not secrecy right but like people

call enclaves are covered by it right so when they go on the Sistine Chapel all

those Cardinals yeah what what is a Pontifical Secret you just like can't tell

anyone about the thing that the

pontifical secret applies to. The classic Vatican joke is it means you only tell one person at a time.

Another version of that I've heard is that it's the only thing that the Pope doesn't know.

It's the pontifical secret.

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