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The Gravity of Justice

The Gravity of Justice

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In the windswept moorlands of northern England, an old priest named Nicholas Postgate spent forty-nine years moving between farmhouses in the dark, celebrating forbidden Mass and carving a small X into doorposts on his way out. A mark for strangers he would never meet. He was eighty-two years old when they finally caught him. His story is the story of eighty-five men --- priests and laypeople --- executed between 1584 and 1679 for the contents of their conscience. But it is also something larger: a meditation on dual allegiance, on the secret networks the marginalized build while society catches up, and on the nature of justice itself --- not as a human invention, but as a property of the universe as real and patient and inevitable as gravity. Transcript available at: https://harmonia.email/podcast-episode/gravity-justice Share and read comments: https://harmonia.email/podcast-comments?field_podcast_feed_value=the_golden_thread&from_node=353
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