id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt k356930924s Michael Patrick Griffin The Politics of Penance: Proposing an Ethic for Social Repair 2014 .txt text/plain 299 12 48 I then turn to Thomas Aquinas who understands penance as both a gift offered to sinners in the sacrament and a virtue which restores justice by capacitating sinners for right relationship. I show why these are distinct elements in a coordinated movement toward justice as the re-establishment of right relationship. cache/k356930924s.txt txt/k356930924s.txt