The general trend today is to work as little as possible for the greatest possible rewards. But do we realise that this culture of sloth is undermining our integrity and shrinking our personalities... and maybe even worse? Written and narrated by the Conventual Sisters of St Dominic, Australia.

Lust is a vice so prevalent that many people have come to see it as a kind of virtue. Is it? In a world that is obsessed with sex as pleasure, we may need to stop and reflect on God's plan for humanity and our true happiness. Written and narrated by the Conventual Sisters of St Dominic.

The sin of envy is one of the ugliest sins. Envy makes us resent the success, gifts, good fortune of others just because we haven't got them ourselves. It is the ultimate kill-joy. It spoils life for others and doesn't improve our own. Written and narrated by the Conventual Sisters of St Dominic.

We all battle against materialism - that degrading tendency to put more value on things than on people. The vice of avarice grows out of this and makes us slaves to our wants, never satisfied with what we have and much more keen on getting than on giving. Written and narrated by the Conventual Sisters of St Dominic, Australia.

Anger - we all have it. We all need it to survive. But we need to keep the lid on it. This means controlling it by our reason and giving it direction by our will, so that it becomes a power for good in the world not the destructive force it so often is. Written and narrated by the Conventual Sisters of St Dominic.

Personal pride - a healthy sense of our own self-worth – is a virtue. But thanks to all the defects of our fallen human nature, we often manage to turn pride into something very ugly, one of the capital sins in fact. It’s the ultimate sin of self-idolatry which leads us into all kinds of dangerous delusions and generally makes us impossible to live with. Written and narrated by the Conventual Sisters of St Dominic.

None of us is going to argue with the fact that our human nature is not perfect. None of us, however, want to really degrade our human nature by sin, especially by those big ones that can turn us into monsters . What are these big sins we sometimes call capital sins? What do they look like in action? How do we deal with them? Written and narrated by the Conventual Sisters of St Dominic, Australia.

Most of us appreciate being supported by firm, loyal friends and have an admiration (sometimes secret) for people with moral fortitude . The virtue of fortitude is a highly attractive one – nothing like the aggressive, dominating, showy strength we associate with the heavyweights of the world but more like the faithful, self-sacrificing and committed strength of the big-hearted. Written and narrated by the Conventual Sisters of St Dominic.

The word "temperance" has often been associated with people joining a temperance league - making an oath never to drink alcohol. The virtue of temperance is a much more wide-ranging and attractive thing. It's all about managing our bodies and our emotions in healthy ways that make us more what we are made to be. Like the other moral virtues, then, temperance is a humanising habit that brings its own happiness both here and in the afterlife. Written and narrated by the Conventual Sisters of St Dominic, Australia.

Justice is that 'fair go' we all want. It's doing to others what we want them to do to us. It's the social virtue that makes living with others possible, peaceful and productive. It's also something we owe to God. And something He measures out to us! Written and narrated by the Conventual Sisters of St Dominic.

Prudent people are often the steady "succeeders" of this world, but we often think of them as boring and unadventurous. A good hard look at the moral virtue of prudence may change our minds on that. Written and Narrated by the Conventual Sisters of St Dominic.

Virtues are not strictly for the 'Holy Joe'. They are good habits that contribute to building that quality personality we all dream of having. Written and narrated by the Conventual Sisters of St Dominic.

Our personality is not the superficial thing we often imagine it to be. This podcast explains why we are all, as persons, more complex than our external 'style'' suggests. Written and narrated by the Conventual Sisters of St Dominic

The Ten Commandments are relevant to you - if you are a human being. Most of us don't realise that they are the Maker's instructions for human nature. No wonder human nature finds itself so often in such a mess when most people dodge around them or ignore them altogether. Written and narrated by the Conventual Sisters of St Dominic, Australia.

Sure, we’re all free to dehumanise ourselves by sin. But we are just as free to repent and get our lives back on track again. God won’t force the issue but He stands ready to forgive, if and when we’re ready. Written and narrated by the Conventual Sisters of St Dominic, Australia.

Except for Christ and His Mother, we're all sinners. But being cheerful about our sin is just a cop-out. So is treating it light-heartedly like a minor social slip-up. Something that messes up our humanity the way sin does is no joking matter. Written and narrated by Conventual Sisters of St Dominic.

Everyone is bothered by the existence of evil. But is it an 'existence' or an absence? And who should wear the blame for it? Written and narrated by the Conventual Sisters of St Dominic, Australia.

We all have a right to our rights. But somehow we have to balance our rights against the rights of others. And no-one has rights without responsibilities. These are ideas which are not always thought through in our 'me first' society. Written and narrated by the Conventual Sisters of Dominic, Australia

We all have our personal identity . You could say we all have our own reality; our own truth. But these personal truths can be a real problem when it comes to our interaction with others. There has to be some kind of unchanging, bottom line truth that all our so called truths are measured by. What is it? Written and narrated by the Conventual Sisters of St Dominic, Australia.

With all the different ways we use the word ‘love’ (and in fact do love), we could save ourselves a lot of grief by taking a look at some of the important categories of human love. This may help us to get our relationships in perspective and allow them to be what they are meant to be. Written and narrated by the Conventual Sisters of St Dominic, Australia.