Sentences with phrase «penitential discipline»

After much searching and discussion, the church had received her back after appropriate penitential discipline.

Finally, even in certain peripheral questions of theology, but especially in the liturgy, penitential discipline, administration and similar matters, there are no definite methods and hard and fast rules which would be wholly good and without any possible dangers.

The cloistered world of these thoroughly pre-Vatican II nuns, with their rigid rules, harshly penitential disciplines, and permanent, world - denying vows, must seem more alien to contemporary readers than the futuristic realms of most science fiction novels.