Compassionate Burials for Indigent Babies (CBIB), a ministry operating under the Archdiocese of New Orleans, claims to provide dignified burials for miscarried, aborted, and abandoned infants. Catholic News Agency’s November 19, 2025 article portrays CBIB founder Lise Naccari and her volunteers as offering consolation through funeral services presided over by a “deacon,” with Knights of Columbus acting as honor guards. The report emphasizes emotional healing while systematically avoiding the Church’s doctrinal obligations regarding sin and salvation.
Naturalistic Sentimentality Replaces Catholic Obsequies
The article reduces burial rites to therapeutic events, quoting Naccari’s assertion that CBIB’s work is “really about joy and life — eternal life” without specifying the conditio sine qua non for such eternal life: baptism. Pius XII’s Acta Apostolicae Sedis (1952) reiterates Augustine’s doctrine that unbaptized infants cannot enter heaven (De peccatorum meritis et remissione 1.16.21). By conducting identical ceremonies for miscarried and aborted children—the former victims of tragedy, the latter of homicide—CBIB implies moral equivalence between natural death and mortal sin. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1240 §2) explicitly forbade ecclesiastical burial for “notorious apostates, heretics, schismatics” and other manifest sinners unless they showed signs of repentance. Abortion constitutes ipso facto excommunication under Canon 2350, making funeral rites for its victims illicit without public repentance.
“CBIB has buried babies stillborn, miscarried, abandoned, unclaimed, aborted, murdered, and thrown away in the trash — and every situation possible.”
This conflation constitutes grave scandal. The article describes CBIB dressing and burying seven “unclaimed and abandoned” babies without investigating whether these deaths involved criminal neglect or abortion. Nowhere does Naccari or the presiding “deacon” Ricky Suprean mention the need for parents to repent of abortion or seek sacramental confession—a damning omission revealing the ministry’s doctrinal bankruptcy. St. Alphonsus Liguori warns: “He who does not abhor sin does not abhor it because he loves it.” (Preparation for Death, Ch. 1).
Illicit Sacramental Simulation
The report reveals Suprean—whose holy orders’ validity is dubious post-1968—presides over “almost every graveside burial,” kneeling before coffins while “praying for each child and each family with my hand touching each coffin.” This mimics sacramental rites despite lacking jurisdiction. Pius XII’s Sacramentum Ordinis (1947) declared ordination rites involving only imposition of hands invalid. Paul VI’s 1968 Pontificalis Romani created doubt about all post-conciliar ordinations. When Suprean claims “God created these children in my wife’s womb, and they will be waiting for us in heaven,” he ignores Augustine’s teaching on limbo, presuming salvation without baptism—a heresy condemned by Innocent III at the Fourth Lateran Council (1215).
The article’s description of shoebox-sized caskets lined with wedding dress fabric and processional music creates aesthetic sentimentalism divorced from Catholic eschatology. No distinction is made between baptized and unbaptized children, violating liturgical tradition that reserves white vestments and Alleluia chants for the baptized. The 1962 Rituale Romanum mandates violet for unbaptized infants’ funerals with the prayer: “May he not be punished for original sin.”
Silence on Abortion’s Gravity
CBIB’s most egregious failure is treating abortion as mere tragedy rather than premeditated murder. The article quotes Sheena Lewis—a mother whose son died while she was incarcerated—without addressing whether her imprisonment related to child endangerment. Naccari describes mothers who abandon babies due to poverty but omits exhortations to chastity or repentance. Pius XI’s Casti Connubii (1930) declares contraception and abortion “shameful and intrinsically vicious” practices. By burying aborted children without demanding accountability from mothers and abortionists, CBIB enables the culture of death.
The Knights of Columbus’ participation as honor guards compounds the scandal. Their 19th-century founding constitution required defense of Catholic doctrine against modern errors. By legitimizing this false mercy, they betray their charism. The article notes funerals with 100 attendees—proof that ceremonialism replaces catechesis. As St. Augustine warned: “Nothing is so hostile to pity as a false piety.” (City of God, 1.27)
Undermining Justice with False Compassion
Naccari’s statement that God “rights all the wrongs” without mention of divine judgment epitomizes the neo-church’s antinomianism. The Council of Trent (Session VI, Canon 15) anathematizes those denying the necessity of penance for salvation. Suprean’s claim that burying others’ children healed his grief over miscarriages exposes the therapeutic narcissism underlying these rites. True Catholic burial practices—like those codified in the 1614 Rituale Romanum—emphasize praying for the dead, not emotional catharsis.
The article’s silence on baptismal necessity and repentance reveals the conciliar sect’s abandonment of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. As the Holy Office declared under Pius XII (1949): “No one will be saved who, knowing the Church to have been divinely instituted by Christ, nevertheless refuses to submit to the Church or withholds obedience from the Roman Pontiff.” By offering pseudo-liturgical comfort without doctrinal substance, CBIB confirms the neo-church’s apostasy from Catholic tradition.
Source:
Burials for little ones: How a New Orleans ministry helps families grieve (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 19.11.2025