The Italian Church’s newly promulgated Funeral Rites leave me in a quandary
Topic: burial
The Church is against cremation. Yet at our parish the storing of ashes nourishes faith and encourages prayers for the dead
Posted on Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Sun 19th May 2013 | Last updated: Fri 17th May 2013 at 13:40pm
Death is hard, but the ancient, hallowed ritual of the Catholic Church can provide lasting consolation
Humans require more than secular rites of ‘closure’