I'd glad that their consciences consider that all right.
The Pope, obviously, knows that he isn't a mind/soul reader. He doesn't ASSUME that those sinners remarried Catholics haven't been to see a priest or gone to confession.
I had an aunt, Irish Catholic, who married a divorced man, my uncle, the youngest of seven children. She HAD gone to a priest...
BTW, do get all toasty when you sit near the fire?
Bwaahaha! Sorry, I couldn't resist.
This is not about mind-reading. It’s about publicly-known facts.
If a a person is in a “marriage” that is invalid because of a previously-existing valid marriage, he cannot be absolved unless he fulfills the conditions specified by Abp. Chaput.
He must be denied Communion because of the publicly-known facts. No one is claiming the ability to read minds.
If your aunt was invalidly, “civilly” married, and was told by a priest that she was free to receive Communion, that priest was lying to her. If he gave her “absolution” in Confession, he was committing a gravely sacrilegious act.
The Pope is lying, encouraging invalid “absolutions,” and sacrilegious Communions.
The Church will get through this crisis with help of faithful laity and clergy who have yje courage to oppose the Pope’s dishonest “teaching.”
Doesn’t matter if they go confess or not, because if they continue to live as a “married couple”, they are in a continual state of sin, which shows there is no contrition. Sins can’t be forgiven if there is no contrition, it doesn’t matter whether you go to a priest and confess them or not.