In his "Divine Comedy" of the 14th century, the sin he condemned most vigorously was "ignavia, " by which he meant sloth -- the failure to take responsibility, the failure to show moral courage and to change things.

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After being reunited with his family in Britain, he had a divine calling to the priesthood.

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But rightly or wrongly, most of us are inclined to seek out the divine not in the moment when the Lord makes His face shine upon us, but in moments when God's grace can seem farthest away.

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"By disregarding his own law in this matter, Francis violates, of course, no divine directive, " Peters wrote Thursday.

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Earlier in the season, he attributed his penalty save against Watford's Darius Henderson to divine inspiration.

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Born in 1265 and exiled in 1302, Dante Alighieri changed the face of Western literature with his great work, The Divine Comedy.

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