Can non-catholics have catholic funerals?

[Matthew_Holford]

I have found it before, it is at the begining of the canon. It was also in my canon law class one of the first things the canon law layer taught us. Dispinsation can be given to any part of the canon for pastoral reasons.

The reason why I ask is because the canon seems quite pastoral. The norm, with most laws, is a wide interpretation. It would seem the law itself gives quite a wide range of circumstances for allowing non-Catholics the funeral rites of the Church without further need to even dispense from it.

 

[alwayslooking]

My father was not Catholic and did not attend church. He was however personal friends with two priests. When he passed they worked together to write and preform a very lovely (not exactly Catholic) funeral at the funeral home.

The service included reading and was very Catholic-ish, but was not a mass and was not in a church building.