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• n  remorse for your past conduct

• Cheney knew what to do, being acquainted, as anyone in his position would be, with that most familiar and degrading of political rituals, the act of public penitence.
• This means, according to Dopfner, that any reform can only be carried out by the church at the council in a spirit of penitence, or metanoia, in the knowledge that it is "a .
• There's a fair share of defensive in these documents, but also a decent amount of penitence.

• repentance
• penance

News & Articles

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• Dupuy: At Thanksgiving, a look at hunger strikes
  In October 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November to be the federal holiday, Thanksgiving, he invited his fellow citizens to use it as a day of atonement; a day to pray for orphans, widows, mourners and sufferers of what he described as the "lamentable civil strife."This is the 160th anniversary of that proclamation. Somehow a day of "humble penitence" has ...
  Nov. 25, 2013 - Athens Banner-Herald

Quotes

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• Pope Benedict XVI in Helium
  Pope Benedict XVI has said this about the scandals, "The church needs to profoundly relearn penitence, accept purification, learn forgiveness, but also justice."
• Rowan Williams in Episcopal News Service
  The season of Lent is about penitence, and penitence always requires us to see ourselves more clearly in the light of God's holiness and justice,Williams wrote. "Each of us must begin again at the foot of the Cross.......... Lent is our...