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This pastoral side of his character is also highlighted by his "Penitentiaries" in which, "in keeping with the sensibility his time, he listed sins and their corresponding punishments using, as far as possible, motivations drawn from the Bible, from the decisions of the Councils and from papal decrees".
Catholic Analysis 2009
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“Penitentiaries” were created as the progressive reform for “Prison” wherein one went to a Penitentiary to do penance as opposed to a prison to dotime.
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“Penitentiaries” were created as the progressive reform for “Prison” wherein one went to a Penitentiary to do penance as opposed to a prison to dotime.
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Penitentiaries are little more than the nation's attic for keeping out of sight and out of mind the worst elements of our society, ignored by all but their families -- if even them -- and any thought of reformation and rehabilitation is left to the idealist.
December 2005 2005
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From 1947 to 1952 Mr. McCulley worked out of Ottawa as Deputy Commissioner of Penitentiaries in charge of education and rehabilitation.
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Penitentiaries; Census Reports; Native whites, foreign born, and free colored, in Penitentiaries;
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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Penitentiaries, the proportion of the convicts to the whole number of each class, the proportion of colored convicts over the foreign and also over the native whites, in the four States named, for the year_ 1850:
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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Penitentiaries -- Census Reports -- Native whites, foreign born, and free colored, in
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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On Wednesday-afternoon, the Cardinal great Penitentiary goes in state to S. Mary Major's, where the minor Penitentiaries are Dominicans.
The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome Charles Michael Baggs
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Penitentiaries and insane asylums take care of most of the right-angle cases.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various
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