(b) There is an obligation of legal justice to testify, even at thecost of serious inconvenience, if the testimony is necessary foraverting a serious evil that threatens the common welfare. --There is an obligationof charity to pray for ourselves and also for others, for we should askfor the things that we are obliged to desire (see 2161). See alsoMartyrdom. The Qualifications of Lawyers.
Examples ofunjust damage or conversion are: contemptuous breaking or burning ofrelics, oils, pictures used for worship; theft of moneys or goodsbelonging to the Church. The great model of thisis Our Lord, who declared that His very food was to serve His Father(John, iv. An oath is not desirable for its ownsake, since it is occasioned by human weakness and unreliability;hence, , the over-severity of the penance), thepenitent may have his penance changed to something lighter.
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