What then is the sin of detraction?Quick question-
If someone asks you about your faith journey and you mention that your family never attended/attends mass as part of the description, is this a sin of detraction? Thanks.
Detraction is the unjust damaging of another’s good name by the revelation of some fault or crime of which that other is really guilty or at any rate is seriously believed to be guilty by the defamer.
To reveal the hidden faults or sins of another without sufficient cause, in such a way that the person’s reputation or good name is seriously damaged, is detraction. In the case of detraction a restitution is more difficult than in calumny, since it is not a matter of lying but of revealing the hidden sins or faults of another that should not be revealed in these circumstances.An important difference between detraction and calumny is at once apparent. The calumniator says what he knows to be false, whilst the detractor narrates what he at least honestly thinks is true. Detraction in a general sense is a mortal sin, as being a violation of the virtue not only of charity but also of justice. It is obvious, however, that the subject-matter of the accusation may be so inconspicuous or, everything considered, so little capable of doing serious hurt that the guilt is not assumed to be more than venial. The same judgment is to be given when, as not unfrequently happens, there has been little or no advertence to the harm that is being done.
I don’t think so. My mother, God bless her, ensured that I was confirmed. She didn’t do this for my younger siblings, and, as a family, we never went to Mass. Under my father’s influence, after my mother’s untimely demise, everyone in my family became dedicated *atheists. *There’s nothing wrong with discussing this with others, if it’ll help them in some way. I thank God, my mother and my grandparents for ensuring that I grew up Catholic, in a rather strange way.Quick question-
If someone asks you about your faith journey and you mention that your family never attended/attends mass as part of the description, is this a sin of detraction? Thanks.