On Truth and Lying
Light of the Faith: Catholic Formation for Classical Educato... by Mother of Divine Grace School
Episode notes
Dr. John Nieto is a Professor at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, CA.
0:01 Intro
4:19 Various virtues related to truth. We are speaking about honesty in particular. Are all lies sins, even if the good to be brought out of one seems larger than the evil of the sin?
13:31 Three aspects of our speech being true
36:31 Every lie is a sin. Distinction between venial & mortal sin.
44:36 How Christ Himself is the Truth
47:44 Q&A with Laura Berquist and Chris Sebastian
“Christ Himself is the Word, Christ is eternally the Word of the Father. The Second Person of the Trinity is the Word proceeding from the Father, and in that sense He is like the truth of our mind within God. He comes forth in God…as expressing the truth of God. And then in the Incarnation He becomes sensible, a sensible ...