#12612 How to Avoid Gossip – Fr. Gregory Pine - Fr. Gregory Pine
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“How Can I Avoid Gossip?” This question opens a discussion on the implications of cursing and the use of God’s name in vain. Other topics include strategies for overcoming cussing, the moral responsibilities of viewers regarding language in films, and whether little lies can be considered sinful.
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Questions Covered:
- 15:16 – My worst habit is cussing. Can you recommend how I can stop?
- 19:31 – Is it ever acceptable for an actor to take the Lord’s name in vain for a movie? And as viewers do we bear any culpability for viewing it?
- 31:32 – Are little lies sinful?
- 42:07 – Is it wrong to say “G.D.”? My dad said it all the time.
- 45:59 – Rahab lied, but she’s this biblical hero. What’s the deal with that?
- 47:30 – How would you approach someone in your life who regularly uses the Lord’s name in vain?
- 51:43 – My students just say the most outrageous and nonsensical things. How can I cut this off without completely shutting down the classroom?
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| 0:33.6 | We just wrapped up a great hour with Father Sebastian Walsh, and now we're going to have another tremendous hour talking about sins of speech. |
| 0:43.4 | These are some sins that, you know, they can be sneaky. |
| 0:47.0 | We don't really think a lot or don't think enough about what we say, how we say it, to whom we say it, and whether we're really building up |
| 0:55.0 | our brothers and sisters with what we say rather than tearing them down or harming ourselves |
| 1:00.5 | even by what we say. And to that effect, we have a great new book here called Training the |
| 1:05.8 | Tongue and Growing Beyond Sins of Speech. And it is written by Father Gregory Pine of the Dominican order. Father |
| 1:13.0 | Pine teaches dogmatic and moral theology at the Dominican House of Studies, works as an assistant |
| 1:18.4 | director of the Thomistic Institute. You may have seen him on his numerous appearances on Pines |
| 1:22.8 | with Aquinas with our friend Matt Frad, and also on previous occasions being on this very program itself. |
| 1:29.7 | Father Pine, thank you so much for coming back to Catholic Answers Live. |
| 1:33.9 | Hey, my joy. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:36.0 | It is our pleasure to. |
| 1:37.2 | I should mention to anyone who was not tuning in the last hour, you've noticed I'm not Cy Kellett. |
| 1:42.3 | Cy Kellett is out for the day. |
| 1:43.6 | My name is Thomas Graff, and I am the social media manager most of the time here at Catholic |
| 1:47.9 | Answers. |
| 1:48.7 | And that is why I was very intrigued and very excited to have the opportunity to host this show |
| 1:53.6 | with Father Pine about this topic, because I don't think I need to go into too much detail |
| 1:59.0 | to say that, yeah, social media is a bit of a |
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