Thank you for the link. I checked out the links provided and this is what one stated:
“… according to the U.S. Catholic Bishops in their Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, a woman “who has been raped should be able to defend herself against a potential conception from the sexual assault” (Directive 36). She is not obliged when raped, as would be the case in consensual relations, to accommodate the natural potential for conception. The forced introduction of sperm is an act of aggression she may resist even through means that prevent the creation of new life. That explains why Catholic hospitals may distribute contraceptives in some rape cases, particularly within 24 hours after the assault. Immediate care is essential as well to address issues related to the transmission of venereal disease and for appropriate and compassionate trauma counseling.”
Emergency Contraception and Rape: A Catholic Perspective
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//www.macathconf.org/emergency_contraception_and_rape.htm)
It seems strange to me that condom use would not be allowed but that emergency contraceptive treatment after the rape would be condoned. I agree with you that condom use in the case of rape may be licit.
As far as the Nazi scenario goes:
I have done some further research and would like to use the word “falsehood” or perhaps “untruth” in place of the word “lie.” That is because I have been told by someone I know and trust that it is true that a lie is always a sin, because a lie is an untruth told to someone who deserves to know the truth.
In some cases, however, the truth shouldn’t be told, as in the case with the Nazis or in the case with someone holding a gun on you.
Here is what the CCC says:
2489 Charity and respect for the truth should dictate the response to every request for information or communication. The good and safety of others, respect for privacy, and the common good are sufficient reasons for being silent about what ought not be known or for making use of a discreet language. The duty to avoid scandal often commands strict discretion.** No one is bound to reveal the truth to someone who does not have the right to know it.** [bolding mine]
2491 Professional secrets - for example, those of political office holders, soldiers, physicians, and lawyers or confidential information given under the seal of secrecy must be kept, save in exceptional cases where keeping the secret is bound to cause very grave harm to the one who confided it, to the one who received it or to a third party, and where the very grave harm can be avoided only by divulging the truth.
Even if not confided under the seal of secrecy, private information prejudicial to another is not to be divulged without a grave and proportionate reason. [bolding mine]
It seems to me that the CCC is stating that I can tell a falsehood without sinning. The Nazi soldiers are obviously not going to let me stand there and remain silent; also they obviously do not have the right to know the truth. They will shoot me and find the family I am hiding or else they will know by my silence that I am hiding the family and we will all be shot and killed or sent off to a concentration camp.
I am the person responsible for maintaining the secrecy. I don’t want to lie, if lying is always a sin. But I am responsible for keeping this family alive.
I’m sorry that I posted a scenario that has been posted to death and I promise to not post it again. I really wish the OP had posted the quotes he kept referring to, but I don’t think he will. So this is the best I can do for now.
I will always submit to the authority of the Magisterium. The problem is that I don’t always know what the Magisterium is saying.
) Your own bishop is your shepherd though, not the conference.