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e demands that there be some honestmeans of eluding unjust inquiries and of protecting important secrets. Magnanimity, see Greatness of Soul. Merely as an act of courage, it is inferior to some otheracts, since fortitude is not the highest virtue, and the goods forwhich martyrdom is undergone must be preferable to martyrdom itself. The impediment isecclesiastical and does not affect infidels.

of one of the couple, or theirincompatibility, or the evil consequences that will follow themarriage. Defamation of the dead in itselfis less sinful than defamation of the living, since the dead have lessneed of a good r Thisquestion was treated above in 426. (c) The general law of the Church rules for ecclesiastical processesthat, when the judge questions the part