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The real issue is not "cloth versus coffin" but that there is no longer
a Sacrament of Extreme Unction which prepared the soul for the next
world. It was abolished in 1971. The Annointing of the Sick is
ambiguous, quite apart from the fact that the "oil" is dubious on
several counts, one being that it is no longer exorcised.
The old form clearly indicated that "The Lord is forgiving sins by this
annointing." The new form mentions "when you have been feed from your
sins," which could mean sometime in the future, ref:
http://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/12_othersacraments.pdf
When Paul VI signed the Dogmatic Constitution of the Church, or Lumen
Gentium, 24/11/1964, he instituted a New Universalist Church as a level
playing field for all religions. Thereafter (1) in October 1965 he
ceremonially handed over the Instruments of the Papacy in New York to U
Thant, UN Secretary General, and (2) proceeded to revise all the
sacramental rites, starting with the rites of ordination, to meet the
doctrines of the New Church. The 1968 rites of ordination no longer seem
to meet the Church's own requirements for validity. Seminary formation
has also been drastically revised. What is now called "The Catholic
Church" is no longer the Church founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ but a
man-made church which bears little or no resemblance to it.
The implications of this grave change needs to be studied and grasped
first before playing around with cloth or coffin.
John Menezes
