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Working on a new creative project involving a lot of research about Zelie Martin (!!!!!! more soon) and man, I just LOVE her.
Wanted to be a nun, but got turned away because of health problems. Didn’t crumble like a cookie but accepted the Lord’s difficult will.
Prayed hard for children, and four of them never saw adulthood. The grief!
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Priests do not need “permission” or “faculties” to celebrate the TLM. Paul VI never legally mandated the exclusive use of the new missal or legally forbade the continued use of the old missal, and no subsequent valid legislation has done so either. You can find all the information in my article today at Tradition & Sanity. The abuse of c…
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I am grateful that I recently converted to Catholicism and started taking my faith more seriously because it provides the perfect justification for spending my time thinking of heavenly things instead of closely following the recent chaos of American politics.
Hi everyone. Chris, Jairaj, and I wanted to let you know that we’ve heard and have been listening to all the views being expressed about how Substack should think about the presence of fringe voices on the platform (and particularly, in this case, Nazi views).
I just want to make it clear that we don’t like Nazis either—we wish no-one he…
Do you also hold this position regarding pornography? That you don’t like it and don’t like that people create it, but you need to provide the forum for it to be published?
Or do you find Nazis more acceptable than pornographers?
Because as you say yourself, you /do/ have content standards, and you do in fact reject some speech as unacceptable for publication on your site. Nazism just happens to fall within the acceptable standards, for you.
To perhaps put this another way.
Would you permit someone to publish on Substack who advocated lowering the age of consent to, say, 8? Who would then describe, in detail, the specific acts this would permit him to perform?
That would certainly count as “free speech”. Would you let him publish?
Or are there areas of speech that you consider beyond what you would permit Substack to be associated with?
Substack is a community. As the owner of the land where this community resides, you have both the right and the responsibility to decide who is to be admitted, and who is not.
By setting standards you are not “making the decision” what I or anyone else reads. You do not gatekeep all publications - it is sheer arrogance for you to imply that you do. Those who wish to read what you choose not to publish are free to go elsewhere.
You are empowered to show the Nazis the door. That you have this power and choose instead to admit them is an unwise choice.