Sentences with phrase «adequate penance»

However, offering slang and fashionable jargon as «renewed» preaching, celebrating the secular embrace of certain Christian symbols (i.e., use of crosses as warnings at highway danger points, putting Christ in Christmas, etc.), or reducing the Gospel to the lowest common denominator of acceptable faith and ethic will hardly be received by a serious world as adequate penance.

For masterminds of mass crimes, nothing short of long - term imprisonment can express adequate penance.