This is TCE number 25, forged paperwork.

This is theology and current events, TCE number 25.

The longer title of this is, is it okay to use forged paperwork to circumvent an unjust law?

So I'm traveling, but my home archdiocese where I am incarnated has asked me once or many times to say,

I'm not sure how many, that I do not speak for them on these videos. However, I'm just going to be

quoting the saints and applying that to a tough topic that a lot of people are looking at. So hopefully

every diocese agrees with Aquinas and Augustine and others.

So if you want to look at the in-depth answer of, is it okay to lie?

Is it okay to forge?

I'm going to link two longer answers to this.

One is in Catholic answers.

And the other is Matt Fred and Dr. Smith, Dr. Janet Smith, that is. You can find my show notes for a longer answer than this.

But this is going to look specifically at a question I'm getting frequently, is it okay to forge paperwork?

So let's look at what the saints say about lying.

This first one is from St. Augustine.

St. Augustine says, quote, a lie consists in speaking a falsehood with the intention of deceiving. St. Augustine, let me read that one more time. A lie consists in speaking a falsehood with the intention of deceiving.

St. Augustine, let me read that one more time.

A lie consists in speaking of falsehood with the intention of deceiving.

And then St. Thomas Aquinas in the second part, question number 110.3.

Quote, therefore, it is not lawful to tell a lie in order to deliver another from any danger, whatever.

Nevertheless, it is lawful to hide the truth prudently by keeping it back as Augustine says.

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