Penance is not within the framework of the Conciliar religion. So it is not one of those traditional tools that they have at their availability to fight of against the World, the Flesh, and the Devil.
Even conservatives can clearly see that Kasper is not a Catholic, yet Bergoglio who has publicly praised this "theologian" and clearly is a student of Kasper. What is amazing is how they don't fail to see the simply connection when someone clearly through words, deeds and acts proves to to you that he is a student of Kasper, yet somehow does not incur the same anathema's is a puzzle to me.
Let him who has eyes to see, let them see.