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Vatican Cardinal Reflects on the Value of Penance in a Time of Pandemic

Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary.

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Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary.

With Lent, Cardinal Piacenza said, we can see beyond the periods of lockdown and pandemic to “time as a whole,” with a perspective “illuminated by the light of the resurrection.”