Our 8th grade religion teacher asked me to teach our 8th graders about the 7 Capital Sins. I had no idea the class would be as enjoyable as it was, at least for me. Hopefully for them too. In explaining the mother of all the deadly sins, pride, I told the story that I learned partly from Scripture and partly from the imagination of St. Ignatius of Loyola in his meditation on the Sin of the Angels (from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius). Succinctly put, the Trinity made the decision that something had to be done about the woeful state of human affairs. So much suffering, so much using free will for evil purposes, so much woe. Thus came the divine decision on the Incarnation: that God would become man in order to save man from all the woe.
The reaction of some of the angels, led by an archangel, Lucifer, was to rebel against God's decision. 
Thus began the great war in heaven described in the Book of Revelation. The sin of the rebellious angels was pride: how can God go beneath us to become a lowly human?! We will never accept this decision!
The good angels, the ones who acquiesced to the divine decision, were led by Michael, the Archangel. By the way, the very name Michael means, "Who is like God?" (It's a question, not an attribute as if to say that Michael is like God.) Letting God be God and not giving in to a spirit of rebellion against God is the virtue of humility, the antidote to pride.
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