Regarding: "...the statement reads. "Regarding the specific issue of funeral rites, people who had lived openly in same-sex marriage, like other manifest sinners that give public scandal, can receive ecclesiastical funeral rites if they have given some signs of repentance before their death.""
- Those spouses and family attending the loved one in his or her final days should be able to attest that the dead person was truly sorry for the upset his or her civil marriage caused the bishop which became for him a stumbling block.