In cases of violence perpetrated within the Church—particularly clerical abuse—responses have tended to follow two distinct but insufficiently integrated paths: a juridical-institutional response and a sacramental-pastoral one. While these approaches occasionally overlap, they often remain in tension, revealing divergent theological understandings of justice, mercy, and the meaning of reparation. In some cases, the Church's often reliance on juridical-penal mechanisms has tendentially marginalized the lived experience of victims and survivors, minimized the responsibility of the community, and sidelined the sacramental and penitential dimensions of repair and restoration. In the face of this crisis, the Church itself appears skeptical of the penitential model's capacity to heal wounded relationships. This paper asks whether repentance, forgiveness, and penance have been emptied of their transformative and revelatory potential. Have they become merely identity-marking rituals, incapable of mediating God's presence or fostering genuine encounter with the other? Arguing that sacramental theology must reclaim its prophetic and liberative dimension, this paper explores how the Church's sacramental life can contribute to a renewed understanding of reparation.