A reader writes:<\/p>\n
Thanks for sharing my prayer request last week. I emailed you about my friend who suffered an injury that led to memory problems. Well, I have an update, but first, here\u2019s more of the story. My friend was a member of a Catholic facebook group. In this group, we\u2019d crack jokes, engage in semi-organized apologetics, and generally have a great time. I\u2019d known him for months before the accident.
\nOr I thought I did anyway. We\u2019ve recently found out that this person was a fake profile\u2026an elaborate lie. There is no injury, no memory loss, no friend.
\nI don\u2019t know who this person is; I can\u2019t call him my friend anymore, but he probably needs more prayers for this than he would for the fictional injury. I also wanted you to know the truth, and to thank you for your prayers, even if they were for a lie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nI wonder if the guy had decided my reader and his trusting friends \u201chad no right to the truth\u201d and therefore concluded that he was not really lying. Or maybe he decided that he was \u201cacting\u201d and therefore not lying. Or perhaps he reasoned that he was somehow going to achieve something for the Greater Good (Catholic apologetics! The glory of God!) by his noble lies. Hard to say, since he was lying.<\/p>\n
Father, help this man learn how to live in and speak truth and to repent his lies. And help the people he lied to recover their capacity to trust. Help them forgive him his betrayal of that trust. Mother Mary, pray for all concerned. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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