Posted on 12/15/2018 4:10:34 AM PST by sparklite2
Maison Hullibarger’s father tells the Detroit Free Press that he asked the priest to stop talking during the Dec. 8 funeral Mass. But Jeff Hullibarger says the Rev. Don LaCuesta continued giving a critical sermon at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Temperance.
Hullibarger says some mourners left the church crying.
The archdiocese released a statement Thursday saying it’s sorry that an “unbearable situation was made even more difficult.” The archdiocese says LaCuesta will not preach at funerals “for the foreseeable future.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
That’s precisely how it’s worded, but our modern journalism types have AOC IQ’s.
But you do have an interesting point, as it triggered a memory where a man went to a funeral parlor and shot himself. Sad, but true.
Obviously you don’t watch TV or movies. Don’t you know that whatever happens to you after death is whatever you believe? /s/
What about criticizing priests for corruption and false doctrine? I have noticed that is a far worse crime....
Punctuation matters.
I am scheduled to go to a time traveling meeting last Thursday.
There is only one sin that can separate us from God and send a person to hell. The only unforgivable sin is refusing to accept Christ as Lord and Savior. Anyone who turns to Jesus for forgiveness is made righteous by his blood (Romans 5:9) which covers our sin — past, present, and future.
“- - - such as mental illness that may lead to it.”
We all have a built in instinct to survive, with that said, wouldn’t mental illness be a factor in all suicides?
From a medical standpoint, showing sympathy for a suicide actually inspires copycat suicides, so doctors groups used to discourage even sympathetic news coverage.
Written by “Associated Press”.
Don’t reports put their name on their work anymore?
A few commas would be helpful
So, then is it your contention that at every funeral priests should be critical and tell all those in attendance how despicable a sinner the deceased is and that they might not be welcome in heaven? After all, we are all sinners.
AMEN!
This is what I'm sensing too. Since the article nowhere directly quotes the priest, he may have said something as simple as "Only God knows whether he is in heaven or not, but we need to pray for the repose of his soul," which is solidly Catholic teaching (2 Maccabees 12:39-46).
Actually, we don't exactly what the priest said because the article doesn't tell us. All we know is that the family didn't like it.
Suicide definitely harms others.
>>>So, then is it your contention that at every funeral priests should be critical and tell all those in attendance how despicable a sinner the deceased is and that they might not be welcome in heaven? After all, we are all sinners.<<<
Catholics believe that prayers for the dead are efficacious if there is sin that has punishments due to it. Unless such sins are heinous sins they are likely in purgatory and have to be purged of those sins before entering heaven.
This seems to happen often at the Post. I think they do it on purpose.
There’s quite a bit more to the story.
The kid’s football coach had been bullying him, so the family asked the coach not to attend the funeral. He did anyway and was asked to leave. Then the coach posted this on social media ...
““I was just asked to leave a funeral by a family member of a deceased football player. If you need someone to blame, I’m your man, I’m your fall guy. This is how society is when things go not as planned. We blame others for our own shortcomings.”
After word about Wood’s online sneer reached school officials, his coaching duties were terminated.
As for the priest...
“At the funeral, after he’d lectured mourners about suicide, LaCuesta tried to keep Maison’s parents from eulogizing their son, even though that had been agreed on well in advance, they said.
“I had words prepared, but when (the priest) was done, he was going to finish mass without giving anybody else the opportunity to say anything. He had the organist start playing and they were going to roll the casket out — some nerve.
“Our funeral director by this time was at the front of the church. We had to have the funeral director walk over and stop the organist,” Jeff Hullibarger said.
... As the casket was wheeled out, the couple told the priest he was not welcome at their son’s burial.”
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