IV.   Faith

Penance is a dogma first introduced by the Roman Cult in the 14th Century whereby a person willingly and knowingly consents to punishment, sometimes even self punishment as repentance and atonement for some sin after their willing confession that lawfully converts their sins into to a crime and an unrecorded or recorded criminal conviction. Hence, Penance is derived from the ancient Latin word poena meaning “punishment (for a crime)”.

In Western Law, based upon Roman Cult Law, sin and crime are considered interchangeable and equivalent terms.

While the false dogma of original sin converts all people into debt slaves and criminals under the control of the Roman Cult, the ancient principle of requiring an oath or vow as a valid contract may be absent. Consequently, the Roman Cult in seeking to remain technically in honor with the ancient principles of law devised the concept of Penance in the 14th Century, so that people confess their crimes as sins and a legal contract exists for inflicting some form of punishment such as death, torture or taking of property.

The unholy “sacrament” of Penance devised by the Roman Cult and now promoted by several Religions and other Cults involves three (3) parts: contritio, confessio and satisfactio:

(i) Contritio is considered willing repentance and remorse, free from fear or duress before a minister called a "confessor" by a "confessant" either as or on behalf of the "penitent"; and

(ii) Confessio is a vocal confession by the confessant to the confessor of one or more sins, or crimes, free from fear or duress; and

(iii) Satisfactio is the sentence issued by the confessor to the confessant who then must execute the sentence willingly. Once the sentence is uttered, the sin is completely separated from the confessant and “salvaged” by the confessor.

Prior to the elimination of Common Law and its replacement with pure commercial slave law (Private International Law), the courts in most Western nations operated as Penal Courts, also known as Criminal Courts, also known as Courts of Penance:

(i) Contritio in a Roman Court is the pre-trial hearing or hearing at which the Indictment is read by the Prosecutor acting as the "confessant"; and

(ii) Confessio in a Roman Court is the trial or judgment phase during which the Prosecutor seeks to perfect the confession of the "penitent" with the assistance of agents who may convince the accused to "turn" such as an attorney; and

(iii) Satisfactio is the sentence issued by the confessor (judge) to the confessant who now becomes the penitent by consent andmust execute the sentence willingly.

As Private International Law being pure commercial slave law has corrupted and abrogated the sacrament of Penance before Roman Courts, most jurisdictions no longer consider willing consent as a fundamental requirement to obtaining a fair conviction, nor the valid “salvaging” of sin as monetized debt in the form of a bond. Therefore, many sentences and bonds issued since 1933 are invalid.