Gossip is "a plague worse than COVID," Pope Francis said, asserting that while speaking ill of others comes almost naturally, it is a tool of the devil to divide the church.
Commenting Sept. 6 on the Sunday Gospel reading about Jesus telling his
A reader asks, what is a good definition of gossip? Monsignor Charles Pope answers that there are multiple different types of gossip: reviling, backbiting, calumny, detraction, tale-bearing (also called “whispering”), derision and cursing. All these types of gossip are an abuse of
ROME (CNS) — Lent is a good time to concentrate on fighting the urge to gossip about others and instead trying to correct one’s own faults and defects, Pope Francis said. Reciting the Angelus prayer at noon March 3 with pilgrims in
According to our metrics, the most-read story on OSVNews.com in the last week was our recent faith story asking if gossip is still a sin even if you’re telling the truth. I loved that it was so popular — it shows that
Is it a sin to gossip if the story’s true? That’s not breaking the Eighth Commandment, is it? The one that forbids bearing false witness against your neighbor? False witness, bad. OK. But true story … well. Hmm. This seems to have