A daily guide to what’s happening in the Catholic Church
Topic: cremation
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
The Italian Church’s newly promulgated Funeral Rites leave me in a quandary
Death is hard, but the ancient, hallowed ritual of the Catholic Church can provide lasting consolation
Humans require more than secular rites of ‘closure’