Hi everyone. Welcome to a bonus session of, I don't know what you'd call it, not

Rules for Retrogrades, but a school session with me, Tim Gordon, you're one of your two usual hosts on Rules for Retrogrades.

Occasionally I come to you one-on- just me and the screen, a rapping with y'all

because of personal events, extenuating circumstances as a kind of apologia for missed shows or whatever.

Consider that part of what I'm doing here today because we didn't release the rules for retrogrades yesterday on Wednesday.

There will be an episode coming out tomorrow with Matt Frad, and that should be a good one.

We talk about lots of stuff.

It's a kind of reunion of sorts.

And guess what?

We also talk about the Pope.

On that note, there's another half of the component of my motivation for doing this here today.

And that is because we've talked about the Pope, Frad, Dave, myself, and none of us have what you may be used to in a talk YouTube type show, a uniformity of opinion.

I just wanted to clarify for people out there what I think is arguably the most, literally

the most important moment of the Francis Pontificate in terms of communications.

Remember, on TNT a while ago, Taylor Marshall and I discussed, Francis as a kind of peronist,

at least in the way that he uses a communications office. I think there's something

happened on the 16th, another interview between Italian journalist and co-founder of La

Republica, Eugenio Scalfari. And it wasn't really covered here in the American faithful Catholic news cycle until Tuesday.

That is two days ago.

So, you know, the week of the 20th.

And I think this is the key to everything.

Everything you need to know about this pontificate.

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