Vices are the opposite of virtues. They are perverse habits which darken the conscience and incline one to evil. The vices can be linked to the seven, so-called,capitalsins which are: pride, avarice, envy, anger, lust, gluttony, and sloth or acedia.
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1866. Vices can be classified according to the virtues they oppose, or also be linked to the capital sins which Christian experience has distinguished, following St. John Cassian and St. Gregory the Great. They are called "capital" because they engender other sins, other vices.138They are pride, avarice, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth or acedia.
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1867. The catechetical tradition also recalls that there are "sins that cry to heaven": the blood of Abel,139The sin of the Sodomites,140The cry of the people oppressed in Egypt,141The cry of the foreigner, the widow, and the orphan,142injustice to the wage earner.143
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