Public confessions were made, and penitents touched a wampum belt as a pledge of reform. |
More painful was one's inability to give firm guidance to the many penitents who still asked, and now sometimes argued, about church teaching on contraception. |
Later, the growing numbers of penitents from all over France would keep him in the confessional for up to sixteen hours a day. |
Every country had its wandering hordes of flagellants and penitents, its crusaders and its pilgrims. |
They are all communists, penitents, traitors, or renegades, racked by questions and remorse. |
The Curé of Ars had a different manner of conducting himself with the varied penitents. |