{"id":194491,"date":"2018-12-18T05:09:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T10:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=194491"},"modified":"2018-12-18T05:09:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T10:09:46","slug":"priest-criticized-teenager-who-killed-himself-at-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/12\/18\/priest-criticized-teenager-who-killed-himself-at-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"Priest criticized teenager who killed himself at funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_194493\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-194493\" style=\"width: 766px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/48406750_1103027873191236_7255161741129023488_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-194493\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/48406750_1103027873191236_7255161741129023488_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"766\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/48406750_1103027873191236_7255161741129023488_n.jpg 766w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/48406750_1103027873191236_7255161741129023488_n-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-194493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hullibarger says some mourners left the church crying. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/myhnj\/photos\/a.205743339586365\/1103027869857903\/?type=3&amp;theater\">File Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/myhnj\/\">Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TEMPERANCE, Mich. \u2014 The Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit says it regrets that a\u00a0priest\u00a0officiating at a teen&#8217;s funeral questioned whether he would get to heaven after killing himself.<\/p>\n<p>Maison Hullibarger&#8217;s father tells the Detroit Free Press that he asked the\u00a0priest\u00a0to stop talking during the Dec. 8 funeral Mass. But Jeff Hullibarger says the Rev. Don LaCuesta continued giving a critical sermon at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Temperance.<\/p>\n<p>Hullibarger says some mourners left the church crying.<\/p>\n<p>The archdiocese released a statement Thursday saying it&#8217;s sorry that an \u201cunbearable situation was made even more difficult.\u201d The archdiocese says LaCuesta will not preach at funerals \u201cfor the foreseeable future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eighteen-year-old Maison died on Dec. 4. He was an athlete and honours student.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEMPERANCE, Mich. \u2014 The Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit says it regrets that a\u00a0priest\u00a0officiating at a teen&#8217;s funeral questioned whether he &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":194493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}