[Salvation]

Envy is sorrow, sadness, or anger at the goodness or excellence of someone else because I take it as lessening my own. The key difference is that with envy (unlike with jealousy) I do not merely want to possess the good or excellence you have, I want to destroy it.

[Salvation]

Monsignor Pope Ping!

[Nervous Tick]

Really good teaching. All the more because the difference between jealousy and envy never occurred to me! I learned something new and useful!

Thank you Salvation, and thank you Msgr. Pope.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Without envy, the Left has no platform. I expect it will continue to be a signature “virtue” of progressivism.

[Dr. Sivana]

In traditional theology, envy is quite different (cf Summa II IIae 36.1) from jealousy. Envy is sorrow, sadness, or anger at the goodness or excellence of someone else because I take it as lessening my own. The key difference is that with envy (unlike with jealousy) I do not merely want to possess the good or excellence you have, I want to destroy it.

There's one thing that the socialists and the Islamists have in common.

Growing up, I had assumed that most commies held the John Lennon "Brotherhood of Man" version. When I went to college, I made the mistake of attending a performance of "The Lower Depths". It was miserable. At the end, the line about being more satisfied when the rich guys were suffering like they were was explicitly stated, and was the key point of the play, and not subtly so. They didn't even want the rich guy's stuff, they just wanted to bring him down. The angst was painful and depressing. The next play I saw was "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" After that I gave up going to plays at college.

[FamiliarFace]

Envy is the reason we turn definitions of good things as evil and evil things as good.

Thank you, Monsignor Pope, for your insightful words.

[Hostage]

I’ve always learned from your posts of Monsignor Pope but this one is an exception.

I’ve always thought of jealousy as the negative attribute and envy as a more healthy one. Because envy may connote admiration and inspiration, or wanting similar but not a negative wanting.

For example, a woman has trouble conceiving. She becomes envious but happy for her sister who has baby after baby.

Another example, two athletes compete and one wins the prize. The other one is envious but vows to work harder to finish first next time. A jealous one might plot against the winner and attempt to cause a calamity.

Saul was envious? I always thought he was jealous.

I’ll ponder on Monsignor’s message and meaning further.

[publius911]

How Envy is Different from Jealously and Is a Diabolical Sin

Don't care about the religious or philosophical nuances, but it's really irritating to see that most native (American) English speakers don't seem to know the difference...

[HamiltonJay]

Jealousy vs Envy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmx1jpqv3RA

[Kommodor]

Does this fellow realize that this article is rather counter to what we’ve been hearing from the Vatican?

[Reeses]

Envy, the driver of leftism, is a side effect of vanity. Humility is the cure. The self esteem movement is leftist evil.

[Albion Wilde]

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