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By Regis Martin, National Catholic, September 2, 2025
Regis Martin, S.T.D., is a professor of theology and a faculty associate with the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio. He podcasts at In Search Of The Still Point and is the author of Looking for Lazarus: A Preview of the Resurrection. His most recent book, published by Sophia Institute Press, is March to Martyrdom: Seven Letters on Sanctity from St. Ignatius of Antioch.
From Augustine to Catherine of Siena, the Christian tradition has seen pride as the root of all sin — the self exalting itself above the Creator.
It was not until the dawn of the modern age, which in the popular mind signaled the rise of reason and progress, that pride ceased to be chief among the Seven Deadly Sins, despite its having long since been designated as such by Christian usage. In fact, the whole idea of sin itself as a grave affront to Almighty God was pretty much replaced by wrongdoing as an offense against others, especially the poor and marginalized. And, of course, if there is no God, the Deity having been retired in order to make room for Evolution, how can anyone possibly offend him?
How far we have come from the age of Augustine and Aquinas! Indeed, an entire tradition rooted in both reason and revelation has largely come undone. Leaving what? The exercise, more or less unfettered, of the self-centered self. Hardly enough on which to ground a cohesive or stable social order, is it? ….
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