I run the risk of making a blunder, but I will say it; the Lord loves humility so much that, sometimes, he permits serious sins. Why? In order that those committing these sins may, after repenting, remain humble. One does not feel inclined to think oneself half a saint, half an angel, when one has committed serious faults.
POPE JOHN PAUL I L’Osservatore Romano, Sept. 14, 1978
