[Bill,
September 24, 2007]
Detraction
One of the biggest surprises I got when I thumbed through the "sins" section of the Catholic Catechism about two years ago was there's a sin called detraction. This means passing along something disreputable, but true, about another person.
I was like ... um, I was a reporter, detraction was my job! And as a blogger, well, that meant I was doing it, without even getting paid.
It was really a surprise, since I thought you could say anything true and be safe. But no, that's not true. God requires charity in all things.
I wonder if I need to go through the archives and eliminate all the detraction. What do you think?
I was like ... um, I was a reporter, detraction was my job! And as a blogger, well, that meant I was doing it, without even getting paid.
It was really a surprise, since I thought you could say anything true and be safe. But no, that's not true. God requires charity in all things.
I wonder if I need to go through the archives and eliminate all the detraction. What do you think?
And for the person who knows the original situation to find out if the new woman knows, one of them will have to say what happened. Neither can know what the other knows without someone saying the negative things that they know about the guy.
It's a bit like when a friend had to go through surgery, and her boyfriend asked me if she (the friend) told me everything that happened to necessitate the surgery. I pointed out that it's inherently impossible for me to know the answer to that question.