text: "No funeral rites for Catholics in same sex marriages."
  
  Simply astonishing, considering all the different parishes I am familiar with that allow a funeral, a Catholic liturgy, for a partner of a same sex marriage. The primary reason being that the deceased desired such a liturgy as a believer and for the sake of his or her family -- siblings, parents (if living), children (if any), Catholic friends, relatives, etc.  The poor bishop stands under the wrong temple column, with Scribes and Pharisees. Very sad for that diocese.