VIctoria Ciliberti is a third-generation “palm lady” sharing her craft in the Italian Market ahead of Palm Sunday.

MANILA, Philippines—Doing penance, described by Philippine Jesuits as an “act of mortification,” is a crucial part of Lent for many Catholics. Penance, the Jesuits said, “is any human pain ...

Erik and Lyle Menendez will proceed with their resentencing hearings after spending 35 years behind bars for the 1989 ...

Lawyers for the man accused of killing a health insurance executive in Manhattan said the attorney general was putting ...

A. The word Penance has other meanings. It means also those punishments we inflict upon ourselves as a means of atoning for our past sins; it means likewise that disposition of the heart in which ...

Some criminal justice advocates argue the bill would increase the odds that innocent people stay in prison or are executed.

I tend to offer them my gluten-free bread roll in penance with my most sincere smile ... That’s the bottom line as to why airline special meals exist. Not to cater to the trends and fads ...

The state prisons are rolling out a new screening process meant to catch drugs and other contraband smuggled into facilities through legal mail. Legal mail, letters and documents sent between an ...

But temporal punishment can still remain. Ordinarily temporal punishment is satisfied through personal penance; however, indulgences can remove the temporal punishment due to past forgiven sins ...