Mason

[JuCa]

is it wrong for a priest to celebrate a funeral Mass for a Mason (this Mason was high up)??? This Mason was a friend of his family...

[cappie]

Can. 1184 §1 Church funeral rites are to be denied to the following, [b]unless they gave some signs of repentance before death:[/b]

1° notorious apostates, heretics and schismatics;

2° those who for anti-christian motives chose that their bodies be cremated;

3° other manifest sinners to whom a Church funeral could not be granted without public scandal to the faithful.

§2 [b]If any doubt occurs, the local Ordinary is to be consulted and his judgement followed.[/b]

This is what the Code of Canon Law says....