Cardinal
Desmond Connell, the former archbishop of Dublin, told the Murphy
commission in Ireland that mental reservation was deceiving someone
without telling a lie. He said it is permissible to use “an ambiguous
expression realising that the person who you are talking to will accept
an untrue version of whatever it may be.
”There is an exquisite piece of mental reservation in a recent announcement from the Vatican. According to Vatican Radio, “The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors presented a five point plan to the Pope and his closest advisors at this week’s meeting, including the establishment of a ‘new judicial section’ to examine all cases of bishops accused of abusing their office and failing to report crimes committed by priests in their care.
http://blog.gaycatholicpriests.org/2015/06/more-smoke-and-mirrors-from-the-vatican-on-child-sexual-abuse/
”There is an exquisite piece of mental reservation in a recent announcement from the Vatican. According to Vatican Radio, “The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors presented a five point plan to the Pope and his closest advisors at this week’s meeting, including the establishment of a ‘new judicial section’ to examine all cases of bishops accused of abusing their office and failing to report crimes committed by priests in their care.
http://blog.gaycatholicpriests.org/2015/06/more-smoke-and-mirrors-from-the-vatican-on-child-sexual-abuse/