QUESTION 73

OF BACKBITING



Index

Prologue

ARTICLE 1. Whether backbiting is suitably defined as the blackening of another's character by secret words?

ARTICLE 2. Whether backbiting is a mortal sin?

ARTICLE 3. Whether backbiting is the gravest of all sins committed against one's neighbor?

ARTICLE 4. Whether it is a grave sin for the listener to suffer the backbiter?