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Podcast: Sunday Sermon
Episode: The Wickedness Of Defaming The Character Of Our Neighbor
Description: “And the Pharisees and Scribes murmured, saying: This man receiveth sinners. “— St. Luke 15: 2.
“Now the publicans and sinners drew near unto him to hear him.” Certainly their intention was a good one, and who could find fault with it? Christ receives sinners; he goes in search of them; he goes into their houses; he eats and drinks with them, so as to win their hearts and convert them to God. A most holy work, indeed, and who could have anything to say against it? And yet there were false and wicked tongues that spat out poison, murmured and compla...