The entire Catholic church is the total antithesis of "humility".
You're not exactly in a place to determine someone elses humility.
Yeah, cuz I live in incredible wealth and ease, just like the cardinals and pope.
Really, that was a pretty lame insult. Can't you do better?
And if they are in the closet, how do you know they exist?
So, all the thousands of victims of child raping pedophile priests are lying?
That's not what determines pride or humility.
Im not trying to insult you. I am just pointing out you're not in a position to criticize someone else's lack of humility.
Pride isn't a sin isnt just one of people at the top looking down on others. It's far more common to see pride in the bottom looking up. People who are comfortable can be humble. People who are not living wealthy can be proud.
What you are talking about are symptoms of pride. Pride itself is emnity. Emnity between the individual and God & the individual with his/her fellow man. You put up a wall between you and your fellow man.
If you dispise someone because they have more wealth than you, you have pride in your heart. If you aren't concerned about what you make in terms of wealth, only what you have compared to others, then you have pride in your heart. If you are involved in gossiping, backbiting, easily offended, unwilling to forgive, etc. The proud require the world to tell them whether they have worth. Their self-worh is determined by what others think of them.
The proud are damned because their pride makes it difficult for them to learn. Because in order to change their point, they have to admit they are wrong. The proud cause divisions instead of uniting people.
So there is much more to pride than wealth and power. Im familiar with pride because it's been one of the sins I struggle with the most. If you can't tell I like discussing topics. Sometimes i let my pride get the best of me and start fighting. In fact, I dont know that I know more than one or two people on this message board who doesnt struggle with the sin of pride.
Humility on the other hand comes when we esteem our our brothers as ourselves. That is why classware is so insideous. It feeds and nutures pride rather than humility. When you hate someone they make more money than you or when they make less money than you, you are suffering from pride. That's one of the evils of the entitlement system. It creates pride in people who think they are entitled to what others have earned through their industry and wisdom instead of recognizing that when someone helps you with their means, you should have gratitude. It creates resentment in those who are producing their means because they labor for others against their will. It makes people less inclinded to give of their own.
Humility comes when we lift others higher than they are and sometimes higher than we are. Instead of resenting people who succeed at things we do, we are grateful that they have been blessed. Instead of tearing down we lift up.
Humility is forgiving others who offend, especially if they meant to offend us.
Humility is serving others selflessly.
You have been very critical of the new Pope, yet all the evidence I've seen is he is a humble man. He gives of himself. He doesn't live it up. He may have some pride in him, almost all of us do, but it's not readily apparent.
Pride is the universal sin because it leads to so many others and because it's common and difficult to recognize in ourselves and yet difficult to see it in ourselves.
As a people, pride is our biggest obstacle to saving our Republic. If we do not change ourselves and become humble, we will be humbled just by the consequences of our choices.
As for my question on how he knows about scandals hiding in the closet, the context was clearly refering to scandals other than the pedofile scandal. That one is quite open. They aren't hiding that anymore. They can't. So what other scandals are there and how does early know about them?
