NO CHRISTIAN BURIAL FUR SUCH.
The Right Rev. W. S. Wigger, Bishop of Newark, United States, has declared anew the decision promulgated twenty years ago by Bishop Bay Icy, afterward Archbishop of Baltimore, regarding the burial of incorrigible druukards, wife-beaters and liquor-dealers who sold to drunken men. This decision is that all such should be refused Christian burial. Incorrigible drunkards, the Bishop says, are those who drink habitually to excess and refuse to reform their lives when admonished by their pastors. Even though in in their last moments they received the last sacraments of the Church, so as to help their souls, still would their bodies be debarred from consecrated ground. The rule applies to persons of both sexes, and will be rigidly enforced, the Bishop eay?,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6362, 8 April 1882, Page 7
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127NO CHRISTIAN BURIAL FUR SUCH. New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6362, 8 April 1882, Page 7
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