8.7. Isn’t it prideful to claim the truth when so many others disagree—including saints, theologians, and popes after 1960?

The truth is not ours—it is Christ’s. Humility means submitting to what the Church has always taught, not conforming it to modern opinion. When we say Vatican II contradicts prior magisterial teaching, we are not offering a private interpretation—we are simply comparing texts.

For example, Vatican II teaches that man has a right to religious liberty, even to publicly practice false religions (cf. Dignitatis Humanae). But Pope Pius IX solemnly condemned that same proposition in Quanta Cura. No true pope can reverse infallible teaching. To accept contradiction in the name of “obedience” is not humility—it’s confusion.

True humility is found in saints like Athanasius, who stood against nearly the whole episcopate for the sake of Christ’s truth.