Parents do not, or certainly should not, reject their children for exhibiting faults as they grow up. Nor do we abandon those we love when they become sick. Instead, we long for their return to health, administering to their needs in sickness with patience and tender sympathy. Should it not be the same with faults. We do not love faults in others any more than we love diseases that may strike them, yet charity calls for a patient and sympathetic attitude.
Charity is a spirit of wishing well to our neighbor.
It takes the form of promoting good ends, doing what we can that is helpful to the common good. The companion of fault-finding is gossip. Whenever we are critical of others there is a tendency to want to find confirmation of the criticism with others. Therefore, it is a further responsibility of the life of charity to guard against the evil of reporting the faults of others. We all should ask this of the Lord.