Las Casas wanted the act of absolution to be a healing activity in which penitents expressed real contrition and sought pardon of the indigenous people they had injured. This permitted the reconciliation of the aggrieved parties. The penitents had to confess all of their sins to the priest and then restore what had been lost. Las Casas understood that restitution (that is, making whole again) was not always possible because people had been killed and property destroyed. In those cases, he allowed satisfaction in the form of compensation for the injuries suffered.

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航行西班牙帝国的修女。莎拉 E 欧文斯。阿尔伯克基：新墨西哥出版社，2017 年。Pp。208. $95.00 布；29.95 美元的纸。

拉斯卡萨斯希望赦免行为成为一种治愈活动，在这种活动中，忏悔者表达真正的忏悔并寻求他们所伤害的土著人民的宽恕。这使得受害方得以和解。忏悔者必须向神父承认他们所有的罪过，然后恢复失去的东西。拉斯卡萨斯明白恢复原状（即恢复原状）并不总是可能的，因为人们已经被杀，财产被毁。在这些情况下，他允许以对所受伤害进行赔偿的形式得到满足。