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We must now consider backbiting, under which head there are four points of inquiry:

(1) What is backbiting?

(2) Whether it is a mortal sin?

(3) Of its comparison with other sins;

(4) Whether it is a sin to listen to backbiting?

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Aquinas's monumental systematic theology examining whether sacred doctrine is a science, God's existence and nature, divine attributes, moral philosophy, and the full range of Christian doctrine through rigorous philosophical and theological reasoning.

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