Comments Made at Casey Funeral

Stop me if I’m wrong! But over the years, through education and observation, I got the impression that one of a clergyman’s main functions at a funeral service was to comfort the family and friends of the deceased. Also, another lesson learned, early on as a child in parochial school, was not to speak ill of the dead. Perhaps I have had the wrong impression all these years.

I certainly fail to understand Bishop McGann’s using the funeral Mass for William Casey as a political forum to air his views concerning the Nicaraguan controversy. There is a time and place for everything, and the occasion of the family’s and friends’ last goodby to Casey certainly does not seem appropriates for political comments by the officiating clergy.

ROSE ABBOTT

Redlands