Mea ___ ("My fault")

Usage examples of culpa.

Two weeks later, on June 5, 2003, less than a month after the Times mea culpa, the papers two highest-ranking editors, executive editor Howell Raines and managing editor Gerald Boyd, resigned.

Ellen Foley, wrote in a classically mealy-mouthed mea culpa to readers.

Instead of calling this book Arrogance, I could have entitled it I Got It All Wrong: A Media Culpa by Bernard Goldberg.

I almost blurted out my second mea culpa, but decided to wait for his reaction first.

Longius sed tu fuge curiosus Caeteras laudes fuge suspicari, Caeteras culpas fuge velle tractas Sede tremenda.

Spe tremescentes recubant in illa Sede virtutes pariterque culpae, In sui Patris gremio, tremenda Sede Deique.

Tampoco olvidaré el soliloquio Rosencrantz habla con el Ángel, en el que un prestamista londinense del siglo XVI vanamente trata, al morir, de vindicar sus culpas, sin sospechar que la secreta justificación de su vida es haber inspirado a uno de sus clientes (que lo ha visto una sola vez y a quien no recuerda) el carácter de Shylock.

Las culpas que me infaman son tales que aunque yo repitiera durante siglos el último Nombre de Dios, ello no bastaría a mitigar uno solo de mis tormentos.

There were lots of times when I didn’t think well of myself at all, but even when I had cause to whisper mea culpas to myself under my breath, I would not concede that I was inferior to other people.

He poured out further effusive apologies to Shepherd, until he realized that too many mea culpas could be worse than none at all.