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Pope emeritus Benedict XVI. / Paul Badde/CNA.Vatican City, Feb 8, 2022 / 05:00 am (CNA).Pope emeritus Benedict XVI personally requested forgiveness from abuse survivors on Tuesday in a letter responding to a report that faulted his handling of cases during his tenure as Munich archbishop from 1977 to 1982.In an almost 1,000-word letter released on Feb. 8, the 94-year-old retired pope said that his pain was all the greater as he had "borne great responsibility in the Catholic Church," r...

GATHERING — Pastor Mike Allwein of St. James Lutheran Church delivers the Penitential Act during the Ecumenical Service of Thanksgiving on Tuesday at The Historic Church of St. Francis Xavier

President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, attend Mass with their families before the presidential inauguration at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2021. (CNS/Reuters/Tom Brenner) Editors note: The Jan. 20 Mass in Washington, D.C., on Inauguration Day morning was closed to the public, but the pastoral associate for liturgy and director of music ministries at t...

Ya from cristasoberga. >> thats probably as good as my latin. then we go right into the penitential act where we ask for forgiveness of our sins. we do a gloria, which is giving glory to god, a short prayer, then we get into whats called the liturgy of the world. the first reading is from numbers, the second is from the reading of james and then the proclamation and then give his homily. >> both those readings, the first from the book of numbers will be in spanish, the second reading is actually...