Quote from Letter 9.80 to Romanus, defender. December 598
(I)f some citizens are implicated in public thefts, we should not be seen to defend them unjustly, so that we might not transfer on to ourselves in any way the reputation for wrong-doing, by daring to defend them so ill-advisedly.
But as far as it is proper for the Church, give advice to assist those whom you can by providing a word of intercession. Thus you may both give help, and not damage the reputation of the Holy Church.
(I)f some citizens are implicated in public thefts, we should not be seen to defend them unjustly, so that we might not transfer on to ourselves in any way the reputation for wrong-doing, by daring to defend them so ill-advisedly.
But as far as it is proper for the Church, give advice to assist those whom you can by providing a word of intercession. Thus you may both give help, and not damage the reputation of the Holy Church.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 592
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