COMMENTARY: For the past 14 years on Friday nights, the Reagan family endured the pains of policing with the help of God’s ...

BLUE GRASS — Deacon Dan Freeman posed this question: “What does the Church say about end of life?” during a recent ...

Q: I know that the Catholic Church now allows cremation but is burial of the body still preferred or does ...Read More ...

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 ...

President John F. Kennedy’s state funeral took place in Washington, DC on November 25, 1963, three days after his assassination in Dallas. As the casket left St Matthew’s Cathedral, three-year ...

The first sacramental used during the funeral liturgy is holy water. In Catholic Customs and Traditions: A Popular Guide, author Greg Dues teaches, “Taking Holy water before entering church is a way ...

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 ...

Their discussion focused on some of the rare, ancient books in the IUP library and the broader the historical background of funeral liturgy. Wick started off by talking about a cuneiform tablet that ...

Jon Kenny, D'Unbelievables Comedian, laid to rest in Co Limerick The funeral send-off for comedian ... Locals said it was fitting that his mass took place in St Patrick’s, just a short distance ...

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‘Proclaim the Good News’ is, in church speak, what we call ‘evangelisation’. ‘Baptise in my name’ becomes the ‘Ministry of Christian Initiation’. What follows is Bishop Michael’s recent letter to ...

After the funeral mass, the procession traveled from the chapel to Beverly Cemetery. Ald. Matthew Oshea (19th) sent a notice to neighbors to line the procession route, honor Officer Martinez ...