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Pride

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One of the seven capital sins. Pride is undue self-esteem or self-love, which seeks attention and honor and sets oneself in competition with God

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Catechism Passages

Passages ranked by relevance to Pride, from most closely related outward.

§1866 CHAPTER ONE THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON

Vices can be classified according to the virtues they oppose, or also be linked to the capital sins which Christian experience has distinguished, following St. John Cassian and St. Gregory the Great. They are called "capital" because they engender other sins, other vices. 138 They are Pride, avarice, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth or acedia.

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