Understanding Anger, Practicing Patience
Published April 1997
“If we asked a representative group of adults who frequently receives the sacrament of reconciliation which sin they most often confess, which sin would that be? I would guess the sin of anger. But if we were to ask these same people to define or describe anger, we might very well draw a blank. We would almost certainly draw a blank if we asked them to tell us under what circumstances they consider anger to be a sin. It might be helpful, therefore, to look at anger first as an emotion or passion and second as a deadly sin.”