Subjecting themselves to ugliness is a form of repentance for his characters.
Pope John Paul, who has made repentance one of the key themes of this Holy Year -- and of his papacy -- has already delivered groundbreaking apologies for the church's past errors, most notably, expressing regret in 1998 for the failure of many Catholics to help Jews escape the Holocaust.
This pleasing candour seemed to disarm his critics, though some still fussed that one rousing speech did not a summer of repentance make.
His murals have themes of repentance, resisting temptation, charity and the like.
That kind of admission makes possible a deeper level of repentance, which in turn opens the way for a new kind of Christianity.
Its adoption followed a service of repentance last week that made a formal apology for acts of racism by Methodists against African-Americans.
The latter verses he explains in relation to the possibility of repentance: of sinning, repenting, and returning to the Garden of Eden.
Russian law does not make repentance a condition for an early release.
Philip made a quick repentance at a small church on his way back to Rome from the Persian front, a stark contrast to the grandeur of Theodosius' confrontation with Ambrose.
Don't miss signs of repentance.
