Catholic priest vows to deny burial rights if there is gambling during wake By Pat C. Santos 02/18/2011

Catholic priest vows to deny burial rights if there is gambling during wake

By Pat C. Santos 02/18/2011

A Catholic priest in the northern province has vowed to deny giving burial rights to Catholics if there is gambling during the wake.

Fr. Valentine Dimoc of the St. Mary Magdalene Parish in Lagawe, Ifugao made such rule in a pastoral policy he issued recently.

Dimoc said the parish would uphold the policy of not holding funeral Mass to persons whose bereaved families opted to allow gambling during the wake.

“The policy is pastoral in nature, in response to a social and moral issue in a particular place; the local government unit’s ordinance against gambling is what should be implemented for the common good but sometimes the power is not used by political leaders and law enforcers,” Dimoc said..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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