Pope St Gregory the Great defined what we know as the Seven Deadly Sins as the “Capital Sins”. They are capital because they give rise to others. Anger, for example, can lead to murder. Is anger a natural human emotion? In St Matthew’s Gospel Jesus says some hard things about anger. He warns against showing anger towards our brother. Who has not felt that? He uses orgizesthai, which is related to our word “orgy”. It describes a slow-burning, simmering anger that seeks an opportunity for vengeance and takes pleasure in it. The other Greek word for anger, thymos, signifies that sudden eruption of irritation like a flame that bursts from dry straw. It appears rapidly and as quickly dies. It is the first type of anger that is the most dangerous, since it involves the diversion of something good to the wrong end.