Nine Ways of Being Accessory to Another's Sin

NINE WAYS OF BEING ACCESSORY TO ANOTHER'S SIN

1. By counsel.
    
2. By command.
    
3. By consent.
    
4. By provocation.
    
5. By praise or flattery.
    
6. By concealment.
    
7. By partaking.
    
8. By silence.
    
9. By defense of the ill done

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'These are those who would not think of failing to hear Holy Mass every day, and, at the same time, will not deprive themselves of the satisfaction it affords them to attend the theatres, although the Church has always regarded these as pernicious, considering the ordinary sort of entertainment therein presented.

Again there are those who sometimes read books of piety, and afterwards pass the night in reading novels filled with the venom of bitterness of falsehood and immorality.

This caused Gerson, one of the most famous lights of the University of Paris, to say, of a novel writer, that if he knew him to have died without doing penance for his sin, he (Gerson) would think no more of praying to God for that man's soul, than he would think of praying for Judas.'

St. Jean Eudes