So ... I’m a Protestant. If I were to contact a Catholic priest at any ol’ Catholic Church and say “I want to get married in your church”, that priest would check me out. Are you Catholic? What is your local church? Why not do it there? May I speak with your local clergy?
Did St Patrick’s in NYC do no vetting at all for this funeral service? The guy is an atheist. He’s a trans activist. He’s the mother of all whores. They just waved people on through and said, “Knock yourself out. Have any sort of funeral service you want”?
Not likely.
You are absolutely correct. That is how its normally done.
Why didn’t the priest shut it down when he saw what was happening?????????
there must be a “fellow traveller” in St Pats
There is background check for marriages but not for funerals. Most parishes would take someone at their word. That being said, the whole thing should have been cancelled once it was clear what was going on.
A funeral is not a sacrament (deceased persons can't receive sacraments, for one thing). As long as the decedent wasn't a "manifest public sinner" and there's a reasonable belief that they (and their survivors) would be okay with it, a non-Catholic can have a Catholic funeral.
I think the "no manifest public sinners" rule was broken in this case however.