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Children’s books, short stories, novels, and films have been created based on this basic story of infanticide and repentance.
During the summers, every city and small town had its revival tent where repentant sinners walked down the aisle, the sawdust trail , to the mourners' bench for prayer and sometimes emotional repentance.
The document expresses repentance for actions of Catholics during the Shoah.
The NYT lead concerning the Vatican points out that while the document issued Monday is described by the Church as "an act of repentance" for the failure of Roman Catholics to deter the mass killings in Europe during the Holocaust, it skirts the issue of the Vatican's institutional shortcomings during the era, primarily its official silence about the Nazis.
To usher in the Year 2000, the Pope has declared that anyone who quits smoking or drinking (or eating) for one day can get an "indulgence"--a ticket bypassing purgatorial repentance and smoothing the way to heaven.