Should a Catholic Always Tell the Truth After a Lie?

[Jose]

This is a personal question of mine. When I was just entering college, on my very first year, I told a classmate that I had a job when I did not. I attended to confession, and 4 years later, now, I’m thinking about if I had to actually tell him the truth about it. I read what the cathecism says about it:

2487 Every offense committed against justice and truth entails the duty of reparation, even if its author has been forgiven. When it is impossible publicly to make reparation for a wrong, it must be made secretly. If someone who has suffered harm cannot be directly compensated, he must be given moral satisfaction in the name of charity. This duty of reparation also concerns offenses against another’s reputation. This reparation, moral and sometimes material, must be evaluated in terms of the extent of the damage inflicted. It obliges in conscience.

The thing is, no one has suffered any harm. Should I tell the truth now anyways?

 

[aroosi]

his is a personal question of mine. When I was just entering college, on my very first year, I told a classmate that I had a job when I did not. I attended to confession, and 4 years later, now, I’m thinking about if I had to actually tell him the truth about it. I read what the cathecism says about it:

It was four years ago, you already went to Confession and your sin is absolved. Let it go and move on with your life. Don’t let scrupulosity creep in.