Tag Archives: funerals

QUAERITUR: Could a Catholic terrorist be denied funeral and burial?

Posted on 5 May 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:
Father if the Boston bomber was catholic could the church refuse to give him a funeral or burial in catholic cemetary under cannon law?
To the first question: Yes, the Church could refuse him a funeral.
We read in the … Continue reading →

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QUAERITUR: Catholic funeral for a Lutheran?

Posted on 16 December 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:
My grandmother recently died. She was a Lutheran, but we, her descendents, are Catholic. Who, then, should do the burial? A Lutheran minister, or our Catholic priest? Thank you, and please pray for her soul.
Canon 1183.3 states,
“In the … Continue reading →

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QUAERITUR: Pastor “refuses” to let visiting priest say funeral

Posted on 11 November 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:
Is it right for a pastor to refuse a family’s request for a certain priest to say the funeral mass of a loved one?
There is no way to answer your question, given the lack of additional information … Continue reading →

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QUAERITUR: Can we attend non-Catholic weddings?

Posted on 20 April 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:
Is it wrong if not in fact sinful to attend the weddings and funerals
of non-Catholics? For as Pope Pius XI stated in his encyclical
treating on Christian unity, Catholics are never to participate in
schismatic or heretical congregations. I would … Continue reading →

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QUAERITUR: Priest tells congregation to stand for consecration

Posted on 20 March 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

UPDATE 23 March 20:19 GMT:
From the questioner:
Father, I just wanted to thank you for your response to my question. I wanted to follow-up with you about the funeral.
The vigil and the funeral went beautifully. The priest did not make the … Continue reading →

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QUAERITUR: Requiem on Sunday

Posted on 22 October 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:
Father, is it ever allowed in the Extraordinary Form that a Requiem
Mass be celebrated on a Sunday?
Perhaps for a private Mass.  If I, for example, were to learn of the death of a friend, I wouldn’t hesitate to … Continue reading →

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