Below is an extract from McGarry's article.
"Still, it is possible to feel sympathy for the Catholic bishops and the bind they are in. Some of them. Generally, in a pastoral context, they are sensitive to gay people and groups, as are most priests. This also makes sense as few institutions have such a disproportionate number of gay men in their ranks.
"Such sympathy has to be tempered, however, by a realisation of what the bishops have not told their congregations over recent weeks. They have not told them that they can, in conscience, vote Yes on Friday."
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A very interesting point.
I wonder how Vincent Twomey would answer that. I have a feeling he'd say one is obliged in conscience to vote no, but I may be doing him an injustice.
He has a very weird, pre-Vatican II, view of the informed conscience.
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