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To: Huntress; crosshairs
Could some Catholic Freepers enlighten me?

Sure. It used to be common practice to deny a church funeral to a suicide. However, someone's subjective culpability for a sin depends on their mental freedom and ability to understand the sinfulness of their act. The theory today is that most suicides are sufficiently depressed or otherwise mentally disturbed that they cannot, with certainty, be held completely subjectively culpable for their sin. So its very rare today for a suicide to be denied a church funeral.

And, pace crosshairs, the fact that a Kennedy was involved has nothing to do with it.

30 posted on 05/19/2012 12:00:44 PM PDT by Campion ("Social justice" begins in the womb)
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To: Campion

why ping someone who has to be pace’d?


40 posted on 05/19/2012 12:11:58 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Mitt! You're going to have to try harder than that to be "severely conservative" my friend.)
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To: Campion

But if the Church still denied suicides a Catholic burial, perhaps there would be less suicides among Catholics. I’m at the point where I think that the constant “forgiveness” we hand out to everyone is costing more than it is curing.


51 posted on 05/19/2012 12:34:36 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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