Well, good morning and thank you everyone for joining us here live at the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy. We have some people who made it in. It's been a tough winner so far, but we're making it through. We're grateful that you could be with us. Today we have a very interesting topic. One that I've always say, I always say, I should have done long ago. And this is going to surprise you.

And that is, is lying ever acceptable? Is it ever? There are many things. Do you know that joking

is actually considered by Thomas Aquinas as lying.

What about exaggeration?

What if we're just exaggerating or hyperbole?

What about white lies?

Not to hurt somebody's feelings or to protect them?

That's got to be allowed, right?

This is all very interesting. And so we're

going to talk about all of this. And again, the answer might really surprise you. So we're going to go

through biblical and Catholic teaching online, because at one time or another, we've all been put in

this position where we either don't want to offend somebody or we make up excuses or outrightly try to deceive. And that's problematic. So anyway, but before we begin our prayer, it's with very sad news, extremely sad news, that cameraman Giuseppe, he's just his family.

His mom was so very sick.

Well, his sister, shockingly, died last night.

She passed away.

She had been sick with cancer, but then the cancer went into remission.

And we were all so happy, and she was such a vibrant soul and still is.

And she then got pneumonia and has just, it was just shock.

When I got Giuseppe's text this morning, I just was in so much shock. So I called

him, he's hanging in there. He's just the most incredible guy. He's hanging in there. But wow,

his family is really carrying lacrosse right now, as I assume and know that many of you are too.

So let us begin with a prayer.

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