
Day 27: Speaking Virtuously (Introduction to the Devout Life)
Catholic Classics
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The Difference Between Judgment and Juddication
In the Catholic tradition, when we talk about sins of speech, we're usually concerned with what I'm confronting the person with directly. Or is it something that I'm doing secretly? And if I'm doing it secretly, what am I trying to undermine? So that helps us to make more fine grained judgments as to why it might be morally blameworthy or why it might need to be rained in. St. Francis likens these sort of things are like murder; he's pretty clear that you that you kill somebody in doing that, you're a murderer in slanting somebody. He talks about this sort of like these three lives that we have as human beings with our spiritual
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