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The Morality of Lying

Sed Contra: A Podcast of Catholic Theology

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St. Thomas's Disagreement With St. Alphons' Vagore

For both of them truth is a name for christ oh yes yeah i think it's interesting here. St. alphonsus distinguishes kinds of equivocation from simply lyingYeah and similar to what he would call equivocation uh it's this idea of mental reservation so that if there is a sort of double meaning in something you can sort of mean one thing but your interlocutor might take it a different way. How far does this go for instance? There's a very very practical example for me that i've even seen in my short time as a priest which has to do with the seal of the confessional or something. Some people might say legitimately  that many people could

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