Catholic priest criticised teenager who killed himself at his own funeral

There are calls for a Catholic priest in the US to be removed after he told the funeral of a teenage boy that he might be blocked from heaven because he committed suicide.
Jeff Hullibarger and his wife, Linda Hullibarger, from Michigan, chose Father Don LaCuesta to lead their son Maison’s funeral after they met him and trusted him to deliver a compassionate and respectful sermon celebrating “how Maison lived, not how he died”.

The 18-year-old, who tragically took his own life on December 4, was described as a straight-A student and outstanding athlete.But instead, the pastor at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Temperance told the room full of hundreds of mourners and family members what he thought of suicide.

“He was up there condemning our son, pretty much calling him a sinner. He wondered if he had repented enough to make it to heaven. He said ‘suicide’ upwards of six times,” Mr Hullibarger told the Detroit Free Press.