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- Christianity
- Penance as a religious attitude
- Penance as a sacrament or rite
- Catholicism
- A moral virtue
- Sacrament of Penance
- Assigned penance
- Penitential acts
- Salutary penance
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Lutheranism
- Reformed
- Anglicanism
- Methodism
- Penance in Indian beliefs
- Penance in art and fiction
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Penance is any act or a set of actions done out of contrition for sins committed, as well as an alternative name for the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox sacrament of Reconciliation or Confession.
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