text: Not when people are going to Confession and venting their frustrations about:
  
  1)  conventions
  2)  the debates
  3)  the anger on talk-radio, TV, in conversations
  4) disagreements with family members/friends/co-workers
  
  A number of the priests in our area made public [not private confessions by people] but the
  general trend of Confessions from late summer until after the voting.  This was said as part of homilies on week-ends.
  More people expressed more personal frustrations with this particular year of voting than most priests have seen in 40+ years of hearing Confessions.
  
  I believe that there is more that the official church should have done.