More on Detraction ~ Fr. Ripperger 

This talk is actually really desperately needed. The level of scandal and detraction that is actually going on out there is insane. Thanks Fr Ripperger. Thanks Steve.

Father had an actual DROP THE MIC moment for me when he said that few Catholics live the faith and continue a life of habitual sin and as a result, they cannot expect that Priest, bishops and the Pope to be men of outstanding character because it’s not the leaders that they deserve!!!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏. BRAVO Father. Once again You hit it out if the Park. 😂😂😂. I soooooo needed this. Thank you as always. 🥰. Steve, you just gut punched with this one!!

Thank you Father. I desperately needed to hear this. It's a sin I struggle with.

This is such an important and underrated topic, so many young teens and even adults have taken their own lives as a result of detraction. It’s a serious problem especially in the age of social media. It’s a very pernicious sin. Depending on the degree of detraction or calumny, it can even feel like a slow and painful death.

Very much needed. Detraction in social media has turned very common, with the excuse of "defending" truth and faith.

Detraction St. Thomas - Summa - sometimes translated as 'backbiting' However, detraction is saying something that is true in order to harm someone's good name or reputation. It is different from calumny which involves saying something false to the same end. Murmuring - talking behind someone's back to destroy someone's reputation Contumacious - saying something that harms someone's good name to their face. Directly or Indirectly 4 Direct Ways: 1. Saying that which is false about him. 2. Stating his sin to be greater than it is. 3. Revealing something unknown about him. 4. Ascribing his good deeds to a bad intention. Indirectly: 1. Speaking against his good. 2. Maliciously concealing a good of him. 3. Diminishing the good of someone. Is it a grave matter to detract? Grave to blacken someone's good name. Restitution - if this was the case, you should strive to make restitution. However, it may be venial if: 1. Done from a light motive Not detraction to reveal a hidden sin so that a brother may amend his life. Sometimes, you can do this in a group setting for the good of public justice (charity in mind). Keeping someone from an evil situation. No right to ruin someone's name given the past acts they have since amended. Things that hinge on one's good name: 1. Reputation 2. Business affairs ruined 3. Charity Should we listen to people who detract? If a person is detracting and we listen without resisting it, we participate in their sin. Careful not to induce others to detract, gossip or probing through our questioning. What happens if we are detracted against? If you're good, remember it might be a test from God for you to grow in patience. "If they persecuted me, they will persecute you" At times, we should defend ourselves. Other times, just grow in virtue. Does that mean that every time we say a true thing that harms a reputation is a detraction? Conditions for it NOT to be a detraction: 1. What we say has to be just (neither greatly nor lower) and proportionate. 2. Detachment from saying bad things about others (it should pain us). Constant detraction against priests, bishops, and the pope. Lack of certitude about things these people have said due to news media - ALWAYS go to the source video/transcript or refrain from commenting at all. We get the leaders we deserve. Straighten your behavior first, instead of going around detracting. (Take the plank out of your own eye...) When to do it: 1. Only do it for the good of the person you're talking about (fraternal correction) 2. For the good of someone that might fall for the trap/snares of this person. When not: To feel smug or superior (malice) Government involvement in our lives is extreme. And it's the vast majority of the news. Stop paying attention to them. Start reading more (Scripture, Catechism, Organon, Ethics, Saints lives, etc.) Always avoid taking delight when revealing info. Necessary: when someone unjustly has a good name that can be used to cause great harm. Counsels: - Should be infrequent. - Check the appetites (do not habituate to delight in evil - malice) - Avoid constant negativity, focus primarily on God - *Charity above all*

From Québec happy to listen to you Father, such real truth! Thanks for leading us all to sanctity! Louise ocv

This is a great video, I think it is a sin that all of us has fallen into. Thank you Fr.

What a sermon 😳 love ❤️ from Liverpool England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Awesome teaching, needed to be said. Im reminded that when I point the finger at someone I have three pointing back at me.

Thank you Fr. Ripperger for a much needed information these days. Deo Gratias!!! 🕊💒🙏

God bless you father ripperger

Ive only ever corrected one person in Mass… she was sitting in front of me and my children playing a game on her phone during the Homily. I felt bad but I checked in w Fr afterwards and he said it was correct and also an act of Charity..

One of the most common sins. This is why silence is golden.

Excellent talk, as per usual! Thank you, Father, and Steve. Full disclosure, this is one final (but not the only) area I have had to depress, in my life. I use this as a joke, but it’s true, I come from Italian and Greek background, mainly, so I’ve been battling spaghetti and revenge my entire life. Thankfully, it is dissipating, and where I need to take proper steps, if talking to the person doesn’t work, I look for legal ways of amending the issue - and to whatever length this may be necessary, no more and no less. I still have to keep my tongue in check, so regular confession helps, immensely. In terms of those in authority, I have one rule. If they can cheat and lie to their spouses and family, they have no qualms about doing the same to others. Doesn’t deserve my vote, full stop.

Thank you, Fr. Ripperger. Currently struggling with this at work.

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love to hear it

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Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

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Very convicting. Very helpful. Thank you, Father Ripperger.

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I needed to hear this...God is so gentle in dealing with our faults. I'm listening Lord. Help me...i don't want to hurt you.❤

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Love of God means youlove your neighbor means you protect your neighbor from evil, in all instances. Which means the apostacy going from the top to the bottom of the Catholic Church.

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A much needed talk, thank you, Fr Ripperger. A technical problem, however, is that the YT audience never hears questions from your live audience as clearly as you do. Please can you repeat the gist of a question before launching into the answer. This applies to every lecture of yours I’ve heard

Thank you.

I have a person who daily destroys my reputation on purpose. She told me it's for my lifetime. I'm doing my best to live a good Christian life. All of its done behind my back.

Tis a very excellent and needed explanation . Thank you Father

Thank you Fr. Ripperger. I pray for you and thank God for sending you.

Thanks for this topic Father. God Bless!

Thank you, Fr. Ripperger

Great talk, I learned so much and what I am guilty of

Great lecture

What about if everyone is just freaking awful and their behaviors drives one insane so you can't live peacefully without venting about it? That's the current state of pretty much everyone witnessing this chaos.

Great information. This comes at a time I needed it most. Thank you.

Clear and concise. Thanks for posting!

Thank you, Father. 🙏

Good talk

Yay. A Fr. Ripperger homily 🙏

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Thank you Fr. This is such a great sermon with wonderful examples.

Thank you Fr

Thank you so much for this information, especially the real life examples

Thank you so much 🙏

Only speak to others about their faults if it will benefit them spiritually. John McHatton

great information to know! thank you, fr.

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This is a great topic basically it says think before you speak because your words can be deadly and I know I’m guilty of this so it’s a good reminder as Jesus taught us and it’s all through the Bible the evil of a loose tongue can cause a roaring fire

Social media and phones have multiplied this sin exponentially. It’s so easy to rashly write your basest thoughts and hit send without really thinking. Phones in the hands of kids and teens is especially bad, but now the immaturity and lack of self-control has extended into adulthood. I don’t own an internet cell phone, or use any social media. This is the farthest I go, an occasional comment on RU-vid and I use email with close friends and family. Nonetheless, I nearly lost my job because of one person’s false conclusion regarding something I said in a private conversation with another person at a conference. The lady overheard a phrase I spoke, assumed the worst, made it into an entire work of fiction, and proceeded to spread it all over via Facebook. After six months, it made its way to my supervisor, who, instead of asking me, went to her supervisor, then to the department head, and from there, to the head of the regional chapter. Only then was I informed via “a confrontation,” in which I was demanded to defend myself. I had no idea what the man was talking about because the original conversation was of no consequence, small talk by the coffee urn between conference speakers. I was hounded by this for three years before I was able, with the help of some computer savvy friends, to contact the woman with whom I had the original conversation. In the meantime, the woman who spread the fiction had quit and moved away. I missed out on four potential promotions with corresponding pay raises and in-service training. The department head knew the original woman, so I was able to partially clear up the matter at work, but many still had their suspicions. I remained socially excluded for the remaining five years I worked there. The story spread outside my workplace to similar workplaces and to people in my chapel, because it concerned a moral matter.

Thank you. 🙂

It’s very difficult to protect yourself against a liar. There’s more than the spoken word involved also.

That was very helpful Thank you :)

I was wondering as I listened about situations where people feel the need for emotional support after being abused or badly treated, in that situation it isn't necessary for the other person to know what someone did, but the speaker can receive counsel and find peace through talking about what happened. Would that be sinful?

If an employee is stealing goods from a company then a coworker reporting him commits no sin. If a man is running around on his wife, at some point the wife needs to be informed, if the husband refuses to leave off. But if I tell the husband's neighbour who has no business knowing, then it's detraction. If a pastor is abusing a child, then he must be reported. Yes, we have a right to privacy and our good name, but it's not an absolute right, it can lost by our immoral behaviour or grave necessity. If a truck driver is drinking on the job, he forfeits his right to a good name, and needs to be reported. When an potential employer checks out a candidate's references, previous employers are fully justified in discussing their faults.

Detraction in modern parlance is that cancelling?

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Dear Fr. Ripperger, How would you differentiate it (detraction) from Prudence? For example, in our neighborhood are prostitutes who passed themselves off as Decent person. So, one who does not know them are preyed upon. When you warn your friends about them or tell them not to be part of their group...isn' that being prudent? Out of concern for your friends , you must warn them for the danger they could be facing if they continue to seek the company of these women who hide their deceitful agenda. Thank you Fr. Ripperger! GOD BLESS! AVE MARIA!

Think before you say anything! Does it pass through these three filters from Socrates: 'Is it TRUE, is it KIND, or is it NECESSARY?'

This is great, but it’s also unclear on how it relates to the sin of Omission….

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I see RU-vid was listening to my convos yesterday 😅

It seems difficult to discern when detraction is venial and mortal. Could you elaborate on this?

They talk about “The Christian Name” in the Catechism under Thou Shalt Not Take The Lord’s Name in Vain. In our worship of God, we don’t want to have the ruin of someone else’s name on our conscience unless their character is not good.

Im a convert a little over 3 years now, been going to an TLM apostolate over 2 now, and ive seen first hand the negative fault finding and pessimistic outlook with long time traditionalists, former sedevecantists. Its a quite a bad habit

Yeah... I don't ever expect the Seminary nor Diocese to ever admit Detraction.

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But what about warnings about an individual who presents himself as honest but actually takes advantage of others?

What if it's to protect from abuse so others know as a cry for help or if something happens they know.

What if I have a difficult colleague and she hurts others by commnts or behaviors? I find myself either laughing at her or talking about what she's up to? My boss won't correct her, am I at fault for "venting " with others?

Words are like bullets they can hurt and destroy people. De traction is a mortal sin? Fr Ripperger, the most educated priest on the doctrines of the Catholic church.

lawyers are good on this to influence a jury/the judge and win a case

So, if I ask "is the pope catholic?", and use his words, and actions, as a basis for my serious question, is that detraction?

What is the use of keeping quiet when this Pope is purposely attempting to destroy the Church from within?

What if they don't know and will never know the person you're talking about ?

Soooo.. hypothetically, telling the truth about the Pope's performance as being outside the Faith, with the intention of warning others about the problem in order to protect their souls and without commenting directly about the state of the Pope's soul, would be an admirable and faithful act, would it not? And likewise, not calling out such heresy would be wrong especially for our Bishops and Cardinals?

What about priests ,bishops that are destroying the catholic faith! What about the laity that are their victims. Including the popes?????????

Damn it. I thought keeping silent was the good thing to do. Ought i just abruptly leave?

Boy, They really need to send apologies to Trump for all the lies they have told about him..🎉 Trump 2024 🎉🎉

This is so legalisticly complicated.

Praying for the "traditional" Catholics who say horrible things about Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa.

So it’s settled, conservative detractors must hold back on talking falsely if their own church and pope. It’s a grave sin.

Father Ripperger, please stop going on “Doctor” Marshall’s show. He bad mouthes the Pope for a living. Thank you

Do you think the sexual abuse scandal especially considering the lavender aspect of it , was facilitated because of the hierarchy fear they were detracting by addressing it more directly vs indirectly or avoiding it , especially if they thought they were overall protecting the reputation of the church.