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Seven deadly sins, also known as the seven capital sins or the seven cardinal sins in Roman Catholic theology. They are: (1) vainglory, or pride; (2) greed; or covetousness; (3) lust; or inordinate or illicit sexual desire; (4) envy; (5) gluttony, which is typically understood to include drunkenness; (6) wrath; or anger; & (7) sloth. Pope Gregory I (the Great) first listed them in the 6th century and St. Thomas Aquinas expanded on them in the 13th century. The seven equivalent virtues are (1) humility, (2) charity, (3) chastity, (4) gratitude, (5) temperance, (6) patience, & (7) diligence can all be used to combat each of these.
You can think of the seven deadly sins as tendencies toward sin and alienation from God. For instance, lust might cause someone to commit adultery, which is a fatal sin, or it might cause someone to have less consciously immoral ideas, which are referred to as venial sins. The seven deadly sins were a common motif in morality plays, literature, and artwork during the European Middle Ages.
