To be fair, we can have an exception: when the priest is obliged to refuse absolution because the penitent can???t receive it (for example: remarried after a divorce, or other cases) but if he is administering the sacrament in pubblic (not in a confessional box), after kindly explainig the situation to the penitent, he should just give a simple blessing, so that no one (apart from the penitent) ca