Sentences with phrase «public penance»

Chinese dynasties were shaken when people held the corruption of the Emperor and his mandarins to blame for devastating floods; European and American communities into modern times declared days of public penance as an answer to droughts.

In the early Church the sinner was only formally reconciled after doing penance, sometimes public penance in which the parish might join with him on his behalf, for a certain number of days.

Yet even he can scarcely understand that his rite of public penance and purification will also be the rite of ordination of the great High Priest who is to come, and thereafter of all of us who are to have access to the Holy of Holies because of his sacrifice.

Do public penance?

Not exact matches

Indeed, judging by the reporting on the presidential campaign, it seems that in the absence of any substantive public debate on morality among religious leaders, media representatives have emerged as the new priesthood in our culture: they demand confessions of misconduct from public figures and then determine the seriousness of the sin and the degree of penance required for the sin to be forgiven.

In the ancient Church, he alone determined the duration of the public penitent's penance.

In its admirable attempt to «create a «religiously informed public philosophy»» (as George Weigel's interlocutor posited), First Things should explicitly incorporate in its social mission the teaching of Pope John Paul II in Reconciliation and Penance: The radical cause of division between persons and within societies, institutions, and structures is sin.

His contemporaries such as Ambrose still held to one faith, one baptism, and one (public) penance.

In a public display of penance for allowing the appearance of corruption to permeate, Vance requested The Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity at Columbia Law School to investigate ways to better insulate our elected prosepublic display of penance for allowing the appearance of corruption to permeate, Vance requested The Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity at Columbia Law School to investigate ways to better insulate our elected prosePublic Integrity at Columbia Law School to investigate ways to better insulate our elected prosecutors

«The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» is much like its celebrity heroine, Katniss Everdeen, who begins this sequel fulfilling a public - relations tour as penance for her killer popularity.