"One advantage to being an introvert is that people will feel free to share juicy gossip with you and not have to worry that you'll blab." I don't actually know if that's true or not, but such is the thought that occurred to me on Thursday night when coworker A--who, after all, has only known me a few weeks--let me in on a top-secret scandal regarding mutual acquaintance B. Learning this bit of information also reinforced two other beliefs which, although obviously true, I seem to keep forgetting. First, that envy, besides being a failure of caritas, is also often a symptom of ignorance. For various reasons I was jealous of B, but now that I know how costly this incident could prove to be I don't envy him at all. Second, B's piety forces on me once again the realization that religiosity is an unreliable guarantor of virtue--a lesson that thirteen years in religious schools should have taught me by now.

I should keep in mind, though, that I'm only getting one side of the story.