And as our Red Dawn Special Edition continues, much as this morning's Big News came as quite the "October Surprise," it bears recalling that the ability to lay out the scene in real-time and full-context is only made possible by means of this readership's support.

Today's coverage is coming your way thanks to an encouraging start toward keeping these pages from being forced to close. That doesn't mean we're out of the woods just yet, though... and with a consistory now on-deck, what's now become an even more eventful month on the beat – not merely in Rome, either – is only just beginning. 

Ergo, if you'd like to see the coverage keep coming your way as you've come to expect it here, as ever, to degree to which it'll happen isn't this scribe's call, but yours:

To everyone who's already lent a hand over these days, again, all thanks. Even if the first one's just starting to make the rounds, you might well find a fresh added briefing on the incoming Scarlet Crop – and what it means for the church beyond – at some point soon. 

Either way, for now, back to the mines.

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