Ireland

Priest refuses to give communion to politician who voted in favor of abortion

(Eoin Shortiss. Corkbeo).

A Cork TD was refused communion at a fellow party member’s funeral because of ‘his role in Irish abortion legislation’.

Fr. Gabriel Burke refused to give Fine Gael Minister Colm Burke the sacrament at a requiem mass at the St. Patrick’s Chuch in Whitechurch on Friday morning, July 12. The priest said he believed that any politician who voted for abortion in Dáil Éireann was “participating in evil” and should not be allowed to receive the rite.