What are the passions?
“The passions are the feelings, the emotions, or the movement of the sensible appetite—natural components of human psychology—which incline a person to act or not act in view of what is perceived as good or evil. The principle passions are love and hatred, desire and fear, joy, sadness, and anger.
The passions insofar as they are movements of the sensible appetite, are neither good nor bad in themselves.They are good when they contribute to a good action and they are evil in the opposite case. They can be taken up into the virtues or perverted by the vices.”
Cite ref. (Compenduim CCC, 370; 371. What are the passions?)

