During World War I, a Protestant chaplain with the American troops in Italy became a friend of a local Roman Catholic priest. In time, the Protestant chaplain moved on with his unit. The enemy killed him. The priest heard about his friend's death. He asked the military authorities for permission to bury his friend's body in his church cemetery. The army gave permission. But the priest ran into a problem with his own Roman Catholic Church authorities. They were sympathetic, but they said they could not approve the burial of a non-Catholic body in a Catholic cemetery.
