text: From Paproki's July 9 column:
  
  "[C]anon law prohibits ecclesiastical funeral rites only in cases of 'manifest sinners' which gives 'public scandal,' and something such as using birth control is a private matter that is usually not manifest or made public." 
  
  Need to bone up on manifest sinner?
  
  Catholic.org defines it as he/she who "pigheadedly continues to 'persist' or 'stand firm' in grave sin that is 'public' in nature." If this isn't explicit enough, Catholic.org offers this image: ". . .  manifest, obstinate, persistent sinners such as homosexual couples approaching the Eucharist arm-in-arm or with sodomite rainbow banners over their shoulders . . . "
  
  But what if you're dead? Clearly, it's not merely dead but really most obstinately and pigheadedly dead.