But I think he should also, at some point, remind American Catholics that they are called on in the Lord's Prayer to forgive from the bottom of their hearts the sexual abusers in question.
During those same two years, states would be forgiven from paying the $1.3 billion in interest they owe Washington on the money they have borrowed.
Long-time head coach Sigi Schmid had been sacked days earlier with the Sounders bottom of the Western Conference, and Lodeiro could have been forgiven from looking quizzically between the brochure and the reality.
And it would extend the length of time before their debt is forgiven from 20 to 25 years.
He recited a number of sins for which Clinton had already been forgiven, from her landing-under-fire-in-Bosnia claim to her exploitation of the Jeremiah Wright controversy.
In 2007, in response to the mortgage crisis, Congress exempted up to $2 million (per couple) in mortgage debt on a principal home, forgiven from 2007 through 2012, from income.
And yet now one of the English language's two most shunned words had stunned us in the living room, and not via a shout from some toe-stubbing coalman in the street (that could be forgiven) but from the lips of a languid Englishman on the BBC, someone with a university education – "an educated man" – who belonged to the category known as People Who Should Know Better.
Selective groups will be forgiven this year from the restricted annual limits on the health care benefit provisions.
We already knew how to handle migrating the status of commenters so that they retained their banned and forgiven statuses from the old platform as we'd had to do the same thing for Comment is free.
As Arendt puts it: "Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever".
