NEW AREA FOR CONFESSIONS INAUGURATED IN THE VATICAN

VATICAN CITY, JAN 28, 2000 (VIS) - Today at 6 p.m., Cardinal Virgilio Noe, archpriest of the Vatican Basilica, will inaugurate a new space exclusively dedicated to confessions, as penance is a central part of the Jubilee Year. Two rows of confessionals have been installed inside the Charlemagne Wing, a monumental corridor linking the colonnade to the atrium of St. Peter's.

In the new space, the Sacrament of Penance will be administered in various languages, above all by priests of the Roman Curia who have requested to work alongside the penitentiaries of St. Peter's who regularly administer the sacrament at confessionals within the Basilica.

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