He was a homosexual and an atheist (Bowie, not sheen). How do you think he could be buried in consecrated ground?
What do you mean, “where’s the percentage in that”? I don’t follow.
Read Sheen:
http://www.remnantnewspaper.com/Archives/2012-1130-fulton-sheen-Plea-For-Intolerance.htm
You posited that the family asked for a Catholic burial, and I say, how could they be refused? His days of debauchery and everything else are over. Now it’s time for absolution. Gosh, I thought this was the routine.
As for the “percentage” it’s simple. The Church is a community. Do they want to reject members, or draw them in? Of course the Church does not espouse this calculus, but it is ineluctable.