Catechism index

2491 IV. Respect for the Truth 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 …
2492 IV. Respect for the Truth Everyone should observe an appropriate reserve concerning persons' private lives. Those in charge of communications should maintain a fair balance between the requirements of the common good and respect for individual rights. …
2493 V. The Use of the Social Communications Media Within modern society the communications media play a major role in information, cultural promotion, and formation. This role is increasing, as a result of technological progress, the extent and diversity of the …
2494 V. The Use of the Social Communications Media The information provided by the media is at the service of the common good. 284 Society has a right to information based on truth, freedom, justice, and solidarity: The proper exercise of …
2495 V. The Use of the Social Communications Media "It is necessary that all members of society meet the demands of justice and charity in this domain. They should help, through the means of social communication, in the formation and diffusion …
2496 V. The Use of the Social Communications Media The means of social communication (especially the mass media) can give rise to a certain passivity among users, making them less than vigilant consumers of what is said or shown. Users should …
2497 V. The Use of the Social Communications Media By the very nature of their profession, journalists have an obligation to serve the truth and not offend against charity in disseminating information. They should strive to respect, with equal care, the …
2498 V. The Use of the Social Communications Media "Civil authorities have particular responsibilities in this field because of the common good.... It is for the civil authority ... to defend and safeguard a true and just freedom of information." 287 …
2499 V. The Use of the Social Communications Media Moral judgment must condemn the plague of totalitarian states which systematically falsify the truth, exercise political control of opinion through the media, manipulate defendants and witnesses at public trials, and imagine that …
2500 VI. Truth, Beauty, and Sacred Art The practice of goodness is accompanied by spontaneous spiritual joy and moral beauty. Likewise, truth carries with it the joy and splendor of spiritual beauty. Truth is beautiful in itself. Truth in …
2501 VI. Truth, Beauty, and Sacred Art Created "in the image of God," 293 man also expresses the truth of his relationship with God the Creator by the beauty of his artistic works. Indeed, art is a distinctively human …
2502 VI. Truth, Beauty, and Sacred Art Sacred art is true and beautiful when its form corresponds to its particular vocation: evoking and glorifying, in faith and adoration, the transcendent mystery of God - the surpassing invisible beauty of …
2503 VI. Truth, Beauty, and Sacred Art For this reason bishops, personally or through delegates, should see to the promotion of sacred art, old and new, in all its forms and, with the same religious care, remove from the …
2504 IN BRIEF "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor" (Ex 20:16). Christ's disciples have "put on the new man, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness" (Eph 4:24).
2505 IN BRIEF Truth or truthfulness is the virtue which consists in showing oneself true in deeds and truthful in words, and guarding against duplicity, dissimulation, and hypocrisy.
2506 IN BRIEF The Christian is not to "be ashamed of testifying to our Lord" (2 Tim 1:8) in deed and word. Martyrdom is the supreme witness given to the truth of the faith.
2507 IN BRIEF Respect for the reputation and honor of persons forbids all detraction and calumny in word or attitude.
2508 IN BRIEF Lying consists in saying what is false with the intention of deceiving the neighbor who has the right to the truth.
2509 IN BRIEF An offense committed against the truth requires reparation.
2510 IN BRIEF The golden rule helps one discern, in concrete situations, whether or not it would be appropriate to reveal the truth to someone who asks for it.