Word: repenting
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...like-minded churches out of the Communion if it were too lenient on the U.S. But he apparently no longer feels the need. "We are not breaking away," Akinola told TIME. "It is the heretics who will leave the church; we will send them away if they do not repent." Added Archbishop of Tanzania Donald Mtetemela, "If it means cutting off the leg because it is no use, then the Lord will lead us to do that." There was a time when the conservatives might have settled for a less severe amputation. Some had favored the establishment of two parallel...
...domestic regime change would be left only to change the subject. They held their tongues before invasion, and a quixotic stand now would seem worse than cowardly. It would seem crass and opportunistic, political sins for which Bush, if his patriotic armor is to crack, must be left to repent alone...
...sins of one’s motherland, but demands a high standard of justice. Therefore, America should issue a sincere mea culpa when it has hurt others either by intention or accident. Admitting one’s own faults lessens hypocrisy, disarms critics and allows others to similarly repent. Moreover, America’s legitimacy in correcting others is stronger if it is first willing to acknowledge and forsake its own sins...
...obvious and reflexive response to learning that a priest was abusive to children would be to inform the police. Yet I am unconvinced that those priests who have made confession with the cardinal, or other priests within court documents, deserve any fewer religious entitlements than do the laity who repent immoral acts that happen to be criminal. Ordinarily, any ordained Catholic would be defrocked for breaking the seal of confession, a sacrament of the church. And Law could not have been expected by any faithful Catholic to turn over to secular authorities seemingly penitent parishioners of any sort without violating...
...this fundamental detachment of the church—and consequential lack of confidence in it—cannot be overstated. Law has become irrevocably tainted by his own sins, and even if he were to agree to pay the settlements now, open up his arms to his congregation and repent for all that has happened, it is not clear whether or not his own parishioners would be willing to forgive...