Is It Always Immoral to Lies?

Is it always immoral to lie is it sometimes moral and how do we determine that? Gusting was very strongly opposed to lying the eastern fathers were a bit more optimistic about it some of them i think saint basil for example talks about the effects of lies. He tells a story of his friend who was deceived into getting ordained a bishop because people lied  and he didn't want to be ordained so saint basil lied to him telling him where to go saying oh don't worry you'll be safe here when in fact he wouldn't. matthew if you could speak a little bit about this distinction that that saint Thomas makes between three types of lie the malicious lie the joke of sly and the offic