Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When former Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik is memorialized Wednesday at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Paterson, ...

A beautiful urn honors the person who died prior to burial. (Author’s photograph) How carefully must the Church guard the doctrine of bodily resurrection with rules regarding Catholic burial practices ...

A church employee at St. Mary Catholic Church in Alexandria, Va., prepares an urn burial at the parish’s cemetery in this 2017 file photo. (Credit: Tyler Orsburn/CNS.) Listen VANCOUVER, Canada — When ...

(Ad) Most families don’t think about cemetery or funeral planning until they have to. Decisions are made quickly, emotions are high, and time feels painfully short. Yet the choices made during those ...

Pope Pius XII died at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo on October 9, 1958, after nearly two decades leading the ...

The Church requests that the remains of the deceased not be divided. However, this would not preclude someone from having a Catholic funeral. The faithful have a right to the funeral rites of the ...

Time waits for no man, and neither does death — especially during these times of the coronavirus epidemic, which has claimed more than 65, 000 lives to-date. Yet, like other aspects of the sacramental ...

Priests in Ireland who die while facing accusations of sexual abuse are being denied "traditional Catholic funerals,” even if they weren't convicted during their lifetimes. The Association of Catholic ...