e-petition - Burial of King Richard the III at a catholic burial site

[Richard 111]

Sign the petition here
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/38533


Burial of King Richard the III at a catholic burial site

Responsible department: Ministry of Justice


The remains of Richard III have been discovered and exhumed. The
suggestion is that he will be buried in Leicester Cathedral. However,
it seems wholly inappropriate and disrespectful to bury the former
Monarch in the grounds of a church of which he was never a member and
which was created by the son of the man responsible for his death and
ignominious burial. I am not petitioning on religious or sectarian
grounds but I believe the dead of any persuasion have a right to be
interred in a place appropriate to their beliefs.

[Don P]

1. As we all know, the dead have no rights -- not even a right
to authorize you or me to say what their religious beliefs might have
been, let alone about novelties originating years after their actual deaths.
2. Leicester cathedral is a consecrated place of the national church,
viz. the Church of England. Anglican tradition by now provides for the
burial of all Christians regardless of denomination. Anglican church
law for the first century after Richard's death would have classified
him as a member of the C of E, whatever he might have had to say on
the matter.
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa Canada)

[dian...@gmail.com]