I believe sometimes you can do a white lie if it is for a good. Like say someone asks you if they are ugly (God forbid say they are) and you say no, you are beautiful. Everyone is beautiful in their own way. Beauty is only skin deep, But you don’t want to say these things.
Now I’m obviously trying to encourage our fellow Catholics to get a chuckle in return for some of the dumbest ways we have sinned. I know I have said some crazy (yet true) confessions of complete idiocy. Not only do I feel better being forgiven, but it gives me the power to help others just get it over with. LOLNow I would cover it up it I did that kind of farting
sometimes it may be the best thing to do, to conceal the truth from someone. But, the commandment refers, I believe, to anything that harms someone else.
We are to say “yes”, if we mean “yes”, and "no, if we mean “no”. However, I tend to agree with this (in bold), but only in terms of not having to say everything that is on one’s mind in every instance, as there is a time and a place for all things, and there is only so much info. people can handle! I suppose we are are talking about ‘tact’, ‘prudence’ and ‘wisdom’. Sometimes, it is simply not our place to use brute force, and such difficult moments could be seen as the balancing of prudence on one end with ‘calling a spade a spade’, on the other. Discernment, patience and appropriating a sufficient amount of sensitivity are abilities to pray for, as they are all needed when acting and speaking, or thinking about doing so, but then the term would need to be changed, from ‘white lie’ to something less self-admonishing, like ‘being kind’.
I tend to think this is true, and that it is better to not say anything than to tell a kind of lie.
