Saint Alphonsus Liguori on the “ordinary” and sometimes daily sins of people who consider themselves blameless, innocent. “The whispering tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.”—James 3:6… Read More Gossip, Whisperers & Detraction: “Triple Murder”
In this episode Catholic Apologist Trent Horn interacts with President Trump and Protestant Joel Webbon’s rhetoric about hating our enemies. Even in the Church oxymorons I only ever felt myself to be something akin to an object of Christian’ “hate” decades ago in some ‘Trad’ circles when their famous lay leaders, (not the average Traditional… Read More The Will to Hate?
“Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.”— Thomas a Kempis, 15th century
Malicious gossip and hatred delights in the troubles of another. It is often manifest, sometimes very subtly, by the sins of whispering and detraction. The apostle John warns: “He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness.”— 1 Jn. 2:9 We Christians— no matter how nice, proper or… Read More Religious Whisperers. The Sin of Detraction. “Triple Murder.”
