Catholics who voted Yes should consider confession, says Bishop

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Hm, I had a thought about that earlier today. See my comment in this other, related thread:
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Dublin priest tells congregation during Sermon “if you voted yes, you have no business receiving Holy Communion” Catholic News
If this really happened, the man is right – and very courageous. From the article: It’s understood that the priest’s comments have been lauded by Catholic activists online, with many saying yes voters should leave the Catholic Church now. Harsh though it is, I think this makes sense. I don’t see how you can express your support for something that goes grossly against Catholic morals, yet continue to receive the sacraments as if nothing happened. It bears asking: Did those Catholics who vot…
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Anyway, from the current article:
He said he believed voting Yes was a sin if someone “knew and intended abortion as the outcome” of their vote.
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I think he’s already offering way too much leeway. As if it was possible to vote “yes” and not intend abortions.

Besides, as I commented in the other thread, if you voted yes for abortions on May 25, how can you possibly be sincerely repentant a couple of days or weeks later? And if you’re not repentant, you can’t validly receive the sacrament of reconcilation.
 
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It must be a nightmare scenario to see high number of Yes votes & wonder how to handle it… it must be very hard to sleep well lately for the priests.
 
What on earth does Kenny Rogers have to do with this most serious matter?
 
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It only takes a moment to feel contrition for sin.
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Sure does. But that moment must genuinely occur. If today I knowingly and intentionally, after a long period of deliberation vote in favor of a legal change that permanently and irrevocably makes something legal that is grossly at odds with RCC moral teaching, it is quite a stretch for me to believably claim a week later that I had a “moment of contrition”.

See, the Irish “situation” is truly disastrous. Whoever voted yes did not approve a single abortion that he/she can now reflect on and possibly regret. That could be fixed with honest contrition and a confession, even though even a single abortion is horrendous. But no, the yes-voter approved countless future abortions, and he or she did so knowingly, and those abortions are going to continue to take place. There is no fixing the moral disaster that has taken place. Believe me, I wish there was, but there isn’t.
 
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