Is “contrition” a word that is understood today? Maybe yes, maybe no. It isn’t likely a word that makes it into your everyday vocabulary. Here’s “contrition’s” basic meaning – the act of sorrowing ...

Pope Francis leads an audience for priests who hear confessions in the basilicas of Rome and priests and seminarians attending a course on confession offered by the Apostolic Penitentiary, the Vatican ...

Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Republican who is due to assume the chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is in the middle of a contrition tour this week. It’s a humbling ritual, peculiar to ...

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(RNS) — Many people give up on religion when what they really need to do is change their image of God and how they relate to him. Too many people, when they grow older, give up on the God they learned ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/chaucerrev.56.2.0153 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/chaucerrev.56.2.0153 Copy URL I would like to thank Michael Van Dussen, Manish ...

There is no limit to the shameful greed demonstrated by then-American Airlines Chairman and CEO Donald J. Carty and his henchmen (AW&ST Apr. 28, p. 39). Their withdrawal from this money grab was not ...