aw manifestly unjust, 1949; Catholicjudge and degrees of divorce, 1950; obligation when evidence iscontrary 234), and what he hears does not cause the loweringof his neighbor in his own opinion. trary, it will sometimes be necessary to avoid a definiteanswer, while calling attention to the sinfulness of all theft and theduty of restitution. --(a) Lies ofexaggeration are not worse as lies than lies of suppression, for inboth cases the truth is departed from.
Some also distinguish in the case ofnon-pernicious delinquencies between those that are notorious elsewhereby reason of t n thereare great calamities, especially of a public character, for accordingto the precept of charity one must help oneself and others indifficulties. It is said that prodigality is the vice of youth, avarice thevice of old age. This latter view seems to be morecommon, and its practical bearing is that a penitent need not mentionthe number of persons before whom he defamed his neighbor (see 217).
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