text: “'Although some other bishops and dioceses have instituted similar policies in part, this document is mean-spirited and hurtful in the extreme,” Christopher Pett, incoming president of DignityUSA, said in a news release by the organization that rallies the church for full inclusion of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Catholics.”
  
  That means other bishops have done it before but didn't have a leaky office like Paprocki. Because that's how it got out. Usually, this stuff is kept under wraps until the unsuspecting family runs afoul of the edict and discovers there will be no celebrant, no funeral, no burial. Even the mob is treated better.