In Illo Tempore: 16th Sunday after Pentecost

In brief

Fr. John Zuhlsdorf wrote that pride caused the fall of Satan, the apostate angels, and the human race through the first parents.

Writing for In Illo Tempore, Zuhlsdorf noted that pride transformed angels into devils and changed Paradise into a place of suffering. He cited St. Bernard of Clairvaux, who described pride as the beginning of every sin.