Happy Halloween, Parish Orphins and Retrogrades, aka All Holotide, aka Holotide, aka the Autumn Triduum.

Today, I have a little variety show plan for you guys because it's Halloween.

This is one of the coolest days of the year, one of the spookiest days of the year.

And I call it a variety show, which I don't normally do.

I do one theme per show typically here on Rules for Retrogrades.

Because today I want to treat of spooky in the fun sense.

So I have my Memento Mori skull next to me.

I treat of Halloween in the historical Catholic sense to So I have my Memento Mori skull next to me.

I treat of Halloween in the historical Catholic sense to disabuse lots of Catholic puritans

out there of the notion that Halloween is some sort of pagan day of shame.

It's not.

It's deeply historically Catholic and we're going to talk about that right off the bat.

And I'm going to talk about the spookiest thing entering the church and entering the world this Halloween.

It's something that has been on the grow over the last couple of years and had its coming out

party at Franciscan University earlier in October, this October.

And I'm going to talk about an event, a debate I'm doing that involves that spooky swamp creature.

I'll give you a little hint. It's creeping, crawling Catholic socialism going by the name post-liberalism.

We're going to do that in a second or in other cases, integralism.

We're going to do that at the end of the show.

But first off, for starters, let's talk for just a brief moment about what the Holotide is.

I'm teaching you from the homeschool lesson that we ran for our kids today.

All Saints Tide, Hollow Tide.

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