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标题：Keep quiet
作者：Michael Becker
期刊名称：Commonweal
印刷版ISSN：0010-3330
出版年度：2004
卷号：Sept 10, 2004
出版社：Commonweal Foundation

Keep quiet

Michael Becker

I very much liked Cathleen Kaveny's column on the destructive power of the tongue ("Watch Your Mouth," August 13). I have seldom if ever heard anyone confess destructive gossip as a sin. Yet if I remember my moral theology correctly, broadcasting someone's faults is justifiable only if they constitute a danger to the community. Trying to retract something you wish you hadn't said is like trying to catch feathers in the wind.

(REV.) MICHAEL BECKER

Philadelphia, Pa.