Conciliar Bureaucrats Tighten Funeral Regulations While Souls Perish in Apostasy
The National Catholic Register portal reports that several “bishops” of the conciliar sect in the United States have recently issued decrees tightening diocesan funeral policies to enforce stricter adherence to the post-conciliar Order of Christian Funerals (OCF). The article details measures by “Bishop” Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, prohibiting day-of-funeral visitations in churches and mandating prior approval for “words of remembrance”; “Bishop” David Bonnar of Youngstown, Ohio, banning visitations in church buildings to preserve “sacred space”; “Bishop” Robert McManus of Worcester, Massachusetts, reinforcing norms for the interment of cremated remains; and “Bishop” Michael Martin of Charlotte, North Carolina, promulgating governance norms for cemeteries. The USCCB’s Committee on Divine Worship also announced a revision of the “Prayers after Death” aligned with Liturgiam Authenticam. This bureaucratic micromanagement of funeral externals by men who occupy episcopal sees without the Catholic faith exposes the conciliar sect’s obsession with administrative control while it abandons the salus animarum and the immutable doctrine on death, judgment, and the necessity of the true Mass for the departed.