[heterosupremacist]

*What is the difference between a Funeral Mass and a Memorial Mass?*

A Funeral Mass has the body of the deceased or the cremated remains of the deceased present and has all the special prayers attributed to that Mass. When the body or the cremated remains are not present it is called a Memorial Mass.

So I answered my own question.

My question to you is this: if a person requests a Mass be celebrated with the intentions naming a notorious murderer, Can a priest refuse to take part in that Mass?

Would that priest be obliged to speak the words of consecration while holding a place in his heart for unrepentant, evil, murdering “Catholics”?

[FourtySeven]

I have an analogous question: since one of the corporal works of mercy is to bury the dead, then if one is not permittted to have a funeral Mass, what is done for such a deceased individual?

Anyone know?

[ebb tide]

Any priest can and should refuse a funeral Mass for an unrepentant sinner, especially a notorious public one.

What I don't understand is Peters' prior defense of the disgraceful funeral Mass, but one fit for Catholic royalty, offered for the baby butcher, Ted Kennedy; and I noticed Peters, although he provided many links, did not link to his own article defending that funeral.

P.S. Obama gave a eulogy at that funeral Mass for Kennedy.