"It's a tribunal because it judges. Penitentiary because it deals with penance and Apostolic because the Lord has told us to forgive, therefore it does just that."
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Cardinal Monteiro de Castro: "The mission of the Apostolic Penitentiary is to judge and forgive" (17 March 2012)
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