Jesus will heal those who recognize their own pride, pope says

Published: 2008-03-03

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- If people recognize their own blindness and pride, Jesus will heal them, help them live better lives and, therefore, improve the world around them, Pope Benedict XVI said. Commenting March 2 on the Gospel story of Jesus healing the man born blind, Pope Benedict said the story shows that Jesus "came into the world to exercise judgment, to separate the blind who can be healed from those who will not let themselves be healed because they presume they are healthy." Addressing pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square for the midday recitation of the Angelus March 2, the pope said, "Let us allow ourselves to be healed by Jesus, who can and wants to give us the light of God." "We confess our blindness, our shortsightedness and especially that which the Bible calls 'the great sin': pride," he said. Speaking in English, the pope said that the light Jesus brings can "cure us from the darkness of confusion and sin present in this world."

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