The qualities mostof us value above all others are honesty, courage, persistence, generosityandhumility. You aren'tborn withthese things. You developthem. Anyone can have them!
But we should at least acknowledge thevalueof an ego-less decision that reflects humility and concern about the very institution the pope pledged his life to.
In a lifetime of teaching and leading priests in Latin America, which has the largest share ofthe world's Catholics, Bergoglio has also shown a keen political sensibility as well as the kind of self-effacing humility that fellow cardinals value highly, according to his official biographer, Sergio Rubin.