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In St Peter’s Square: Notebook from Rome

January 05, 2023

The dome of St Peter’s was shrouded in mist for the funeral of Pope Benedict, with the cupola and the cross disappearing behind the figures of the apostles that surmount the facade. It was an extraordinary crowd gathered in the freezing cold. There were many Germans, many Italians and people from everywhere else you could think of.

Diary: by John Martin Robinson

October 01, 2022

As the bearer party of young Grenadiers carried the coffin through the door towards us, a ray of sun caught the 3,000 diamonds in the crown, nearly blinding us like a flash of bulbs. The most transcendent moment came when four men from the Household Cavalry took up their vigil posts at the corners of the catafalque, reversing swords and placing their gloved hands on the hilts, then bowing their heads and standing absolutely still

RIP Lord Belhaven – An Officer and Gentleman

February 12, 2021

My father Robin, Lord Belhaven and Stenton, died on December 2 last year. He would have been 94 in February. “He had a good innings,” people keep saying, and while they are right, this isn’t much of a comfort in the early stages of grief, as anyone who has lost someone they love will know.

The Old Rite Requiem shows us the awe-inspiring nature of death

October 09, 2017

The traditional Requiem is unremittingly bracing, calling us to contemplate the fearful mystery of death

Never forget the lonely dead. They need prayers too

September 04, 2017

Parishes should have teams of people who can be called upon to be present when there are few mourners

Funeral Mass for 20 prisoners who died in Haiti’s largest prison

February 22, 2017

Most of the inmates who died had never been convicted of a crime

Vatican: Ashes must not be scattered or kept at home

October 25, 2016

The new instructions were released on Tuesday by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Canadian cardinal won’t refuse funerals for those choosing assisted suicide

October 03, 2016

Cardinal Gerald Lacroix of Quebec said he would not follow in the steps of other Canadian bishops