Priests/Pastors can be preoccupied judging sin by petty piety, often forgetting to love and care.
What follows is one of the MANY reasons organized religion, orchestrated by mostly men from a book of rules and rituals written in a "Bible" or "Quran" written by entirely men, who want to control women and children, as well as men is BULL.
This Priest probably has no idea about a persons right to have a dignified death either . . .
Religion is not fair or caring for the most part. Religion is full of hypocrites, and the Priest who gave the homily at this funeral service is a great example of religion gone bad.
"‘Father, please stop’: Parents horrified after priest used teen’s funeral to condemn suicide"
By Katie Mettler December 14, 2018 at 8:23 PM
Sick and broken people commit suicide. We do not need a f**king Priest to talk about sin when our son or daughter, mom or dad have killed themselves!
"When Maison Hullibarger died by suicide on Dec. 4, his parents — devout Catholics — began planning a funeral that would celebrate their 18-year-old son’s life.
He was a brother to five siblings, an athlete and teammate, a strong criminal justice student at the University of Toledo, and a passionate fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers. And because the priest at their Temperance, Mich., parish didn’t personally know their son, Jeffrey and Linda Hullibarger met with him before the funeral to discuss what they wanted in the homily.
The Hullibargers were detailed, they said, and Father Don LaCuesta took notes.
“We wanted him to celebrate how Maison lived," Linda Hullibarger told the Detroit Free Press, "not how he died.”
Instead, during the funeral at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, the Hullibargers listened from the pews as the priest spoke the word “suicide” six times. He told mourners, local media reported, that Maison may be denied admittance to heaven because of the way he died. LaCuesta wondered aloud, the Hullibargers said, if Maison had repented enough in the eyes of God.
“He basically called our son a sinner,” Linda told the Toledo Blade.
“We looked at each other and said, ‘What is he doing?” Jeffrey said in an interview with the newspaper. “We didn’t ask for this.”
Eventually, Jeffrey decided to intervene and walked to the pulpit.
“Father,” he whispered, “Please stop.”"
The sanctimonious Priest kept going, demeaning and degrading his religion in the course of a few minutes. This Priest weaponized his religious beliefs to do terrible harm to everyone at the funeral!
"But LaCuesta kept going, the Hullibargers recounted in local news reports. When the service finally ended, they told the priest he was no longer welcome at Maison’s gravesite burial — where the teen’s family and friends decided to say everything LaCuesta hadn’t.
Now, the Hullibargers are calling for the priest’s removal, and generating enough discussion to warrant an apology from the Archdiocese of Detroit. In a statement to The Washington Post, archdiocese spokeswoman Holly Fournier said “an unbearable situation was made even more difficult, and we are sorry.”"
The Priest LaCuesta is an ARROGANT DOMINIONISTIC MAN FULL OF HIMSELF AND FULL OF CRAP!
The asshole Priest never should have been made a Priest, is being retrained?
"For centuries, the Catholic Church has struggled with the religious implications, and societal stigma, of suicide. It wasn’t until the 1960s that the church began taking a more benign approach to suicide, allowing parishioners who had taken their own lives to receive a Catholic funeral and be buried on sacred ground in Catholic cemeteries. In the 1990s, Pope John Paul II approved the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which acknowledged — for the first time — that many people who die by suicide also suffer from mental illness."
This, for centuries the Catholics have been stupid and heartless!
"“Grave psychological disturbances, anguish, or grave fear of hardship, suffering, or torture can diminish the responsibility of the one committing suicide,” the catechism states. “We should not despair of the eternal salvation of persons who have taken their own lives. By ways known to him alone, God can provide the opportunity for salutary repentance.”"
Yes, mental illness or any number of reasons exist for suicide, my Priestly, arrogant friend.
