Posted on 12/17/2018 12:53:25 PM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Football coach is fired for attending funeral of teen he 'bullied' against his parents' wishes then taunting them on Facebook after the service where the boy's parents say the priest painted their son as a 'sinner'
A full version of the homily LaCuesta's homily has also emerged but it does not make reference to heaven as the boy's parents said it did.
According to the version which was circulated on Monday, the priest said: 'I think that we must not call what is bad good, what is wrong right.
'Because we are Christians, we must say what we know is the truth – that taking your own life is against God who made us and against everyone who loves us.
'Our lives are not our own. They are not ours to do with as we please. God gave us life, and we are to be good stewards of that gift for as long as God permits.
'The finality of suicide makes this all the worse. You cannot make things right again.'
He did not mention the word heaven but said: 'Christ Jesus sits at the right hand of God even now, interceding for this one who could not stand before God on his/her own.
'Truly, none of us can stand before God on our own. We all need Christ to intercede for us, to plead our case. And here's the good news: Christ has never lost a case!'
Though he said that God would forgive 'all', 'even suicide', the fact that he use the word so many times was hurtful to Maison's parents.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
He did not need to rub the grieving parents’ faces in it.
Here is a link to the actual text.
http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2018/images/12/16/father.lacuesta.homily.maison.hullibarger.funeral.pdf
I don’t know where to draw the line. So many kids to day are killing themselves. No really teen suicide is up! Someone needs to say this is a terrible sin! When if not now is the time? It’s gets the message across to other teens.
He bullied the teen against the parents’ wishes?
Headlines: Gotta love ‘em.
Wow when I first heard about this story I didn’t hear about the angle with the coach too sheesh!
This family has been through living Hell, compounded mightily by the coach’s incredibly self centered behavior and yes by the priest’s homily as well.
Was he (Father) correct, theologically, in everything he said? Yes he was. But it certainly was not the time (at the Mass for their son) to say something like that.
He’s young though he’ll learn (I note the Archdiocese assigned him a mentor for the foreseeable future. Good call).
The coach will probably continue to be an ass though.
We don’t have proof if either!
But was he really? Think about it he was on the football team. Football coaches are harsh. How many of you remember your football coach? They are tough because they want the players to be tough and win the game. Was he just being tough on the kid or was the kid and his parents just snowflakes who could not take the heat?
I think you didn’t get the joke, but you make a valid point.
Some kids are just pussies, born of pussies.
Guess not :P
Then again I was never on the football team! But I remember the coach! He was like a drill sergeant out there on the field and sometimes in the classroom like he could not tell the two apart.
The family should consider themselves lucky they were able to have a funeral Mass for the kid. For most of its history the Catholic Church prohibited funeral Masses in cases of suicide. That only changed when modern research involving mental illness added a degree of uncertainty about the willful nature of a suicide victim's actions.
The coach sounds like a real @ss
The "teen" in this tragic story is 18 years old, and he was a student at the University of Toledo.
The "coach" is his former high school football coach who hasn't coached the kid in more than a year.
The Catholic Church is corrupt beyond belief. Same for the public school system.
I think one must be mentally ill to commit suicide. I could be wrong but if you think hard about this, I think it’s not even debatable.
It sounds like the family went to a Catholic priest when they really wanted a grief counselor.
A lot of someones need to actually act like life is a vessel of wonderful grace. Spending sufficiently long in a dark room, people forget what light was ever like. It’s hard to care about “sin” when the people talking about it don’t strive to make their lives illustrate the diametric opposite of it (grace).
That is a really horrid thing to say. Maybe your pastor is sexually abusing people too, but we won’t hear about it because it’s not the largest denomination? How do you like that?
I read the priest’s homily, and it was all about how despite his having committed suicide, there are many avenues for his attaining salvation despite this most serious sin.
For Catholics who actually know their faith, this would have been comforting.
For Catholics who think everyone gets to Heaven immediately after death, and that a Catholic Mass is about the life of the deceased and the mourners, instead of worshipping God and praying for the soul of the deceased, it would not have made any sense.
I’m sorry, but this priest is a dumb@ss. The time for this particular sermon is at Sunday mass, not at this kid’s funeral.
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