Two days after a naked man stood on the high altar of St. Peter’s Basilica in a shocking security breach, the basilica’s archpriest on Saturday held a penitential rite as required by canon law in ...

VATICAN CITY — If you happen to be near St. Peter’s Basilica on Tuesday of Holy Week, the chances are you’ll have an unusual opportunity to go to confession. That’s because Pope Benedict XVI has ...

Pope Francis set off on what he called a “penitential pilgrimage” to Canada Sunday. During his six-day trip, the pope is expected to meet with and apologize to indigenous Canadians for abuses ...

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 ...

The Vatican has suspended an order of ”penitential silence” imposed 11 months ago on a controversial Brazilian theologian. The theologian, Rev. Leonardo Boff, had been banned from editing, writing or ...

Lent, the great Christian penitential season, began this week all over the world. In Europe, it will scarcely be noticeable: large parts of the Continent have been fasting, wearing sackcloth, and ...