[sinkspur]

And instruct your priests that they all must,just once in a while,refuse communion to people they haven't seen in confession in more than a year.

This is a laughable suggestion. with all due respect. In a 7,000 family parish, do you expect two priests to know who has, and who hasn't, gone to confession?

Even trad priests couldn't be expected to keep up with the confessional habits of their congregation.

[old and tired]

**This is a laughable suggestion.**

It's not laughable. I wish, for example, pro-abortion, publicly sinning politicians would be denied communion. But I don't think most pastors really know whether or not their congregation confesses. I have not gone to my own parish for confession, ever, in my whole adult life. As far as my pastor knows, I've never confessed a sin in all my years there.

And I go to confession weekly, believe me, I need it.

[fortunecookie]

Even trad priests couldn't be expected to keep up with the confessional habits of their congregation.

True in large parishes. But in smaller ones like mine? My point is they used to ask. They stressed confession. Think about how many people go to communion and how many abstain from communion. In many places, it's almost everyone. Now think about how many people go to confession. Christmas and Easter aside, which covers a lot of them, there is still an imbalance. What?, are we suddenly all saints? Ask yourself or someone who goes once a month. Most pastors will admit there is an imbalance and admit they hope and pray for their parishioners.

[As you well know...]

After we vote, some pinheads try to make us wear "I voted" buttons. Seeing as how so many American Catholics desire their Church ape secular fashion, why not have the Priests hand out "I confessed" buttons and only those wearing those buttons will be allowed Communion?

When you are inside the multiple-use worship space, if you approach the sunken circle formally known as the Sanctuary to have a thrice-divorced, planned-parenthood-employed, Eucharistic Babe hand you Communion she will not be permitted to do so unless you have on your, for this month, August "I confessed button."