Iryna Babenko’s Reviews > Conclave > Status Update

…let me tell you that the one sin I have come to fear more than any other is certainty. Certainty is the great enemy of unity. Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance… Our faith is a living thing precisely because it walks hand in hand with doubt. If there was only certainty, and of there was no doubt, there would be no mystery, and therefore no need for faith.

…privately he thought the late Pope had occasionally gone too far in his endless harping on about simplicity and humility. An excess of simplicity, after all, was just another form of ostentation, and pride in one’s humility a sin.