Liberal writer: Deny bishop a Catholic funeral if he won’t give them to people in gay ‘marriages’
A National Catholic Reporter writer argued that Bishop Thomas Paprocki should be sacked and denied a Catholic funeral because of new guidelines he released that stipulate Catholic funerals are not for unrepentant people in same-sex "marriages." Michael Sean Winters called the decree "unhinged" and argued that it's in conflict with Pope 's document on marriage, Amoris Laetitia . Winters also wrote that if he knew he'd die in six months, he would enter into a same-sex "marriage" with his former roommate because it would make things easier on his dog. Winters began his article by stating that Paprocki should be "sacked." "The decree is so completely at odds with the direction Pope Francis is trying to take the church, so excessive in its perception of the cultural significance of gay marriage , and so unlike the example of Jesus presented in the Gospels, it warrants the extreme sanction of removal from office prop...