Thought you might like this.
I'll ping one or both lists tomorrow.
Yay, Italy!
A good friend of mine is a Baptist preacher, and he's never refused to perform a funeral, no matter who the deceased was. The funeral's a ritual to comfort the living. The dead person's beyond help by that time. He tries very hard not to be hurtful, but he does use it as an opportunity to witness to those who might be unsaved.
And when you get right down to it, NOBODY knows what might happened in the last moment before a person's death. They could very well have accepted Christ. We don't know that they did, but we don't know that they didn't either. I think we'll be surprised when we get to heaven at who IS and who ISN'T there.
Just another way of looking at things. I'm not Catholic, and they can do what they want. But with that said, I don't much like what this priest did.
She had had two miscarriages before giving birth to her second son -- so she had one boy (alive) and was delivering a second baby boy when she was clinically dead.
She states that she saw Jesus and Mary, and "Dawn" and "Angel" (her miscarried children). One of them said: "Mommie, go back, you have work to do on earth."
I guess the next thing she remembers is waking up in the hospital.
The point of the story is partly about the unborn, but about what might happen when we die, and our Judgement (and perhaps how fluid that can be can).
Please pray for the unborn!