What is the "Penitential Way"?

Chiesa: Synod. The Preparatory Document’s Arabian Phoenix
by by Sandro Magister

Everybody says there is one, what it is nobody knows. It is the “penitential way” to communion for the divorced and remarried. The Dominican theologian Thomas Michelet lays bare the contradictions

And how is the notion of "penance" here related to metanoia?

Ninth Annual Summer Patristic Studies

As It Should Be

St. Nicholas of Japan on Buddhism

St. Nicholas of Japan on Buddhism by Deacon Giorgi Maximov (print)