For clergy, musicians, and pastoral staff, funerals are often the most sensitive and challenging of responsibilities. For those suffering great loss, grief enters their life, usually to stay. Attendin ...

These are sung during the funeral rites during the translation to St ... Andrea Gagliarducci is an Italian journalist for Catholic News Agency and Vatican analyst for ACI Stampa.

Before the wooden coffin is closed, Pope Benedict XVI’s personal secretary Archbishop Georg Gänswein and Monsignor Diego ...

Pope Francis has revised the funeral rites that will be used when he dies. ROME — Pope Francis has revised the funeral rites ...

Pope Francis has made significant changes to the funeral rites that will be observed upon his death, streamlining the rituals to reflect his role as a bishop rather than focusing on his papal status.

Pope Francis announced this week that he intends on having a much more simple funeral than those of his predecessors at the ...

The action on Jan. 4, 2023, is part of the funeral rites for popes. (photo: Vatican Media / VM) Hannah Brockhaus/CNA Vatican November 20, 2024 The Vatican has updated the liturgical book ...

A Rite of Reception is planned for 9 a.m. Saturday ... He was credited with being a strong advocate for the Catholic Church. But he also came under criticism over the clergy sex abuse scandal ...

The next funeral rite will thus follow the guidelines studied and approved by Bergoglio. The last revision of the Ordo was made in 1998 by Saint John Paul II and published in 2000, and it was used ...

Pope Francis has opted to be buried in a wooden casket when he is laid to rest – amending a centuries-old tradition of a decorated send off as he works to simplify papal customs. The 87-year-old ...

Pope Francis has announced that he will forgo the traditional, elaborate burial rites of his predecessors in a decision that may modernize the Catholic Church. When the time comes, the 87-year-old ...