Posted on 05/24/2010 11:37:29 AM PDT by markomalley
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LUCENA CITY—The denial of Catholic burial rites for the late Quezon Gov. Rafael Nantes—a known Freemason and “born-again Christian”—was in accordance with canon law and not politically motivated, a Church leader said here on Sunday. In a homily delivered a day after Nantes’ burial, Bishop Emilio Marquez said the Diocese of Lucena would uphold its decision “unless some signs of repentance before death had been shown” by the deceased.
Marquez, a known critic of Nantes, noted that the governor’s death in a helicopter crash on Monday was sudden and unexpected, and that there was no way for the Church to determine whether he had repented. The head of the diocese explained that the Church’s Code of Canon Law (Canon No. 1184 and No. 1185) denies Catholic burial rites for the likes of Nantes. Marquez said the diocese issued the clarification to avoid any confusion or misunderstanding on the prohibition issued by the Church last week concerning the holding of Mass at Nantes’ wake at the Quezon Convention Center. Nantes died along with four others on Monday afternoon when the governor’s private helicopter crashed into a subdivision on the outskirts of Lucena City a few minutes after taking off from the grounds of Quezon National High School. Burial at Banahaw Nantes was buried early evening on Saturday at a private cemetery in Lucban town at the foot of Mount Banahaw. “There is no politics in the decision of the Church. I just implemented the Church laws,” Marquez said during the Mass yesterday at Saint Ferdinand Cathedral. “The local Catholic Church in the Diocese of Lucena mourns with the people of Quezon. The fact is we sent our condolences to the family of Governor Nantes immediately after we received the sad news of his tragic death,” the bishop added. “We did not in any way forbid prayers for the eternal repose of his soul or to bless the mortal remains of the governor,” he said.
The bishop explained that the Church did not prohibit the celebration of Mass for the late provincial executive “as long as his (Nantes) body was not there.” “I told him that he can bless the mortal remains of the governor even with his habit on but he cannot say Mass in the presence of his (Nantes’) body,” Marquez said. Noynoy among mourners On Saturday, presumptive president-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, a Liberal Party ally and close friend of Nantes, led thousands of mourners who paid their last respects to the late governor. Also present were Aquino’s running mate Sen. Manuel “Mar” Roxas II, Sen. Francisco Pangilinan, and recently retired Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno. Nantes’ remains were brought from Lucena to Lucban aboard an open, flower-decked truck. Residents along the route patiently waited for the funeral cortege to pass.
Independent probe sought The family of the late governor has asked for the creation of an independent body to investigate the May 17 crash, believing there was “foul play.” Supt. Pascual Muñoz Jr., Lucena police chief, appealed to the community to remain calm and avoid fanning speculations on the cause of the crash. Muñoz cautioned the public, particularly against spreading rumors that the crash was an act of “sabotage” or “politically motivated.” “These kinds of baseless political innuendo will not help investigators. Let us all pay our last respects to the late governor and sympathize with his family,” Muñoz said. The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines has already ruled out sabotage as the cause of the tragedy. Delfin T. Mallari Jr., Inquirer Southern Luzon |
Can. 1184 §1. Unless they gave some signs of repentance before death, the following must be deprived of ecclesiastical funerals:
1/ notorious apostates, heretics, and schismatics;
2/ those who chose the cremation of their bodies for reasons contrary to Christian faith;
3/ other manifest sinners who cannot be granted ecclesiastical funerals without public scandal of the faithful.
§2. If any doubt occurs, the local ordinary is to be consulted, and his judgment must be followed.
Can. 1185 Any funeral Mass must also be denied a person who is excluded from ecclesiastical funerals.
“3/ other manifest sinners who cannot be granted ecclesiastical funerals without public scandal of the faithful.”
The swimmer comes to mind.
I don't think you'll hear any argument from most Catholics on this board (although, unlike this governor, reports have it that (((hic))) Teddy made his confession before he expired)
heh.
They bury politicians who order murders and steal everything not nailed down but not a Freemason...
Actually, the Freemasons here are like the US types: not anti catholic like those in Europe, but who press a secular agenda...there is a worry that this secular agenda includes the coercive population control promotion similar to the one in India that forcibly sterilized many people and resulted in Indira Gandhi losing her election at one time.
Why would a “born-again Christian” or freemason WANT a Catholic burial?
See, this guy should have had his funeral officiated by the cardinal in Boston. THEN he would have gotten a nice lavish "Catholic" funeral.
I mean, it worked for Ted Kennedy, right?
I’m not Catholic but I doubt Ted made any kind of confession.
I have no doubt that he did. Meeting ones maker can be scary.
The man had no conscience, period. Unrepentant to the end.
“there was no way for the Church to determine whether he had repented.”
Repentance is something that God is in charge of; anyway, that’s my 2 cents.
I pray he saw the light at the end.
He was the only “Catholic in Name Only” that did not receive communion when Pope Benedict came.
That eternal damnation can be quite a motivator.
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“a known Freemason and “born-again Christian””
One cannot be both.
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