Christians who trust in themselves rather than God eventually become unsympathetic to those in need and slide down the slippery path of corruption, Pope Francis said.
People who place their trust in their own vanity, pride and riches lose their sense of direction and "distance themselves from God," the Pope said yesterday during his early morning Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae.
"When a person lives in his own closed environment, when he breathes that air that comes from material goods, from pleasures, from vanity, from feeling safe and only trusting in himself," the pope said, "he loses his bearings, he loses the compass and doesn't know his own limits."
