penitent

So then—can an inanimate tool such as this typewriter be penitent, reformed, and redeemed from the original sin of its creation?

Can a “penitent” Nazi-era machine be somehow rehabilitated?

Across the aisle, Artemisia Gentileschi’s recently rediscovered “Penitent Magdalene,” from about 1626, was available on the booth of the dealers Robilant and Voena at $7 million.

But it also happens to be Ash Wednesday, the solemn day of fasting and reflection that signals the start of Christianity’s most penitent season.

In its statement the church noted that Goodrich’s “communications with his bishop were protected by Idaho state law. Only the perpetrator could release the bishop from his obligation under the clergy penitent privilege and he refused to do so.”