Saying RIP in regards to the likes of Rush Limbaugh or Prince Charles, or any non-Catholic for that matter is an implicit admission of a belief in salvation of those who die outside the Church.
As if it doesn't matter whether one professes the Catholic faith.
At the very least, express a desire that such souls converted before they died.
Pope Gregory XVI - 1832
Summo Iugiter Studio
On Mixed Marriages
https://www.papalencyclicals.net/greg16/g16summo.htm2.
(. . .)
Finally some of these misguided people attempt to persuade themselves and others that men are not saved only in the Catholic religion, but that even heretics may attain eternal life.
I didn't thumb down cassini in his thread, but the following doesn't sit right:
https://www.cathinfo.com/teen-catholic-hangout/list-of-funny-remarks-by-prince-philip-(rip)/msg742534/#msg742534That said, how many of you saw his funeral yesterday? The prayers reflecting the belief in God and the afterlife said out loud and the singing in praise of God was beautiful, a belief shared by any traditional Catholic, the likes of which I have not heard at a Catholic funeral for a long time. Now go and find fault in that as happened in their now Protestant St George's chapel.
Perhaps Calvinists or Lutherans also have nice sounding hymns, besides the Anglicans, but it won't matter one iota in regards to their eternal salvation. How many in hell would exchange the time spent in idle words that we call funny, for another chance for conversion to the true faith and time for penance?
Topic: Saying RIP in regards to non-Catholics (Read 1801 times)