I have received several requests over the past several months to ban various subjects on CathInfo.

Basically I'm being asked to censor various content.

Such topics to be censored include: flat earth, Feeneyism, sedevacantism, and others.

CathInfo was started in 2006 when Fisheaters banned discussion of A) any kind of conspiracy/shadow organization, and B) sedevacantism.

I am not a sedevacantist myself, but I believe it wasn't right to outright ban various topics that (obviously) some Catholics wanted to discuss. What else is a discussion forum good for? It's supposed to be a place for people to talk about anything and everything they care about, like a coffee and donuts hall.

Does your parish hall tell you what you can't talk about? You can't talk about cօռspιʀαcιҽs? Other Mass centers? Sedevacantism? Baptism of desire? The Jєωs? Economics? Politics? Cryptocurrency?

If you start banning various topics, in a quest to please various people who are annoyed, then where does it end?

I'd rather not start down that road. So my conclusion is: You can talk about anything DECENT for a Catholic.

The only thing you can't do: deny/mock the Faith, proselytize for other religions, or otherwise violate the Ten Commandments. Free speech (per se) is not what this is about, because Free Speech (per se) is not Catholic. It's more like "what we SHOULD be free to discuss as free human beings, living in a non-dystopian, non-totalitarian world".

If you don't want to hear about certain topic(s), just skim past those topics. There are plenty of others once you ignore those!

Here's the thing: CathInfo goes through "cycles" of activity on various topics. Sometimes, it seems like all Resistance news, all the time. Other times it's all Pfeifferville, all the time. Other times it's all Feeneyism, all the time. Or all Flat Earth, all the time.

But do you see that those descriptions are all mutually exclusive? CathInfo isn't all _____ all the time. It's a huge variety, which varies by the day, by the week, by the month, and by the year. If there are topics that don't interest you, or that you are weary of, then by all means don't click on them.

Or come back a few days later -- I'm sure a new topic will be "dominating" the forum by that point.

But in the end, CathInfo will remain a place where Catholics are free to discuss ANYTHING legitimate for a Catholic to discuss -- that is, anything that can be discussed without sin.

I am not a sedevacantist myself, but I believe it wasn't right to outright ban various topics that (obviously) some Catholics wanted to discuss. What else is a discussion forum good for? It's supposed to be a place for people to talk about anything and everything they care about, like a coffee and donuts hall.

Does your parish hall tell you what you can't talk about? You can't talk about cօռspιʀαcιҽs? Other Mass centers? Sedevacantism? Baptism of desire? The Jєωs? Economics? Politics? Cryptocurrency?

Of course not. You can talk about anything DECENT for a Catholic.

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May I suggest an interesting experiment for someone with your experience, someone who, since you're not sedevacantist, someone who has not been told that while you're in the "parish hall" (alternatively "like a coffee and donuts hall") you are forbidden to discuss certain topics?
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I was going to say something like that, but you kerneled it in that inimitable style of yours.

Too kind as usual. Hopefully the point will be taken this time.

I like the intent stated by Matthew, I just think that the execution should be executed in some instances.

Shhhh... Don't talk to loud... we're talking gardening right now, we'll then exchange recipes... then we'll talk cookware.

They haven't discovered us yet...
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I did it again man.

My own worst enemy....sheesh.

Alright but, no "pancakes", no "pizza", no "tortillas" and, this will be tough, no flatware.

I did it again man.

My own worst enemy....sheesh.

Alright but, no "pancakes", no "pizza", no "tortillas" and, this will be tough, no flatware.

Too funny!   

Who needs flatware?

And on Wednesday. How dare you. Oh, my salivating mouth.

My opinion - I personally have no interest in banning any particular topic.  However, what I cannot abide is when proponents of a particular topic accuse the opposition of being sinful, heretical, sacreligious, or the like.

This is manifesting itself, at the moment, most clearly by the proponents of a flat earth, who are essentially calling anyone who disagrees with them heretics.  This type of behavior should, in my opinion, not be tolerated.

Do you believe all Infallibly Defined Dogmas’ of the Catholic Church without innovation(s)?

The majority of people on Cathinfo.com who refuse to believe that the earth is flat also do not believe all Infallibly Defined Dogmas’ of the Catholic Church without innovation(s).

And here is one of them proving my point.

To answer your question - yes.  However, you are not the arbiter of what the "Infallibly Defined Dogmas' [sic] of the Catholic Church" are, nor do you get to determine what is an impermissible "innovation."