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(b) As to external conduct, one should repel contumely when there aregood and sufficient reasons for this course, and hence Our (c) If the defects are moral, he who reveals them is guilty of sinfuldefamation. , murder) is amortal sin; it is lightly irreverent, according to the common opinion,if the thing sought (e. (b) Prayer is also necessary as a means (see 360), at least generallyspeaking; not that God could not save man without pray

and abstinence) and sleep (vigils, night watches), afflictivepenances through the use of hairshirts, painful girdles, scourges ordisciplines. --Since the species of sins must beparticularized in confessions, the question of the distinction betweendefamations has practical importance. Theamount of the fee should be fixed, therefore, by such standards as thelaw or custom, or by the value of that which the lawyer devotes to thecase (e. Impossibility, Physical, 361 a; moral, 361 b.