VANITY. — While desiring glory is to seek the manifestation of one’s own good or excellence (which in itself is not evil, as Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself affirmed in clear words, Mt 5:16), it becomes vain glory: a) when glory is sought in things unworthy of it or not meriting so much as is sought, e.g., in evil things, or in goods that one does not possess; b) when glory is sought from persons of little esteem due to poor judgment or scant personal worth; c) when glory is sought solely for personal satisfaction, excluding the right end, which is the honor of God and the good of one’s neighbor (Summa Theologiae, II-II, q. 132, a. 1).
Vain glory is a venial sin when no gravely sinful circumstances intervene. It would therefore be a mortal sin to seek glory in a gravely sinful matter (ibid., II-II, q. 132, a. 3). From vain glory, which according to St. Gregory the Great (Moralia, XXXI, cap. 45: PL 76, 621) and St. Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologiae, II-II, q. 132, a. 5) is a capital vice, various vices derive: namely, a) boastfulness or vainglorious talk; b) the invention of novelties in true matters, yet calculated to arouse admiration; c) hypocrisy in false matters; d) pertinacity or stubbornness in one’s own opinions; e) discord; f) contention or strife; g) disobedience. To these vices, some add curiosity, which is the inordinate desire to know.
Valvisciolo – Cloister (13th century).
The first church was opened in 1886 under the title of Notre-Dame du St-Rosaire. On 2 Sept. 1890 Leo XIII created the diocese of New Westminster, and Bl. Pius X on 19 Sept. 1908 raised it to an archdiocese, which became more important than Victoria. Its present suffragans are Victoria, Nelson, and Kamloops, and the apostolic vicariates of Prince Rupert and Whitehorse. The prelates of the see of V., under its various transformations, were: Abp. L.-J. d’Herbomez (1864–90); Bp. P. Durieu (1890–1899); Bp. Agostino Dontenvill (1899–1908); Bp. Neil McNeill (1910–12); Bp. Timoteo Cassery (1912–13); and Abp. William Mark Duke (1931), still in office (1953).