Held on Monday, January 5, at the Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the private Catholic funeral unfolded behind closed doors ...

I attended a Mass of Christian Burial for a 99-year-old Catholic friend a few weeks ago. The next day I attended a Presbyterian funeral service for a 101-year-old friend. Your conclusion may be that I ...

Editor's note: On Holy Thursday, Pope Francis prayed for the dead as well as for the priests, doctors and nurses who he said represented the "saints next door" during the coronavirus pandemic. Over ...

A new troubling trend marks the U.S. church: the decline in Catholic funerals. It will affect Catholic life in the future if a basic tradition dies out. It also affects pastoral life now if people ...

Q. Recently I went to a Catholic funeral Mass. The only time anyone told stories about the deceased person was briefly after communion. It seemed just like a regular church service. Why do they do ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Before he had an opportunity to celebrate a baptism or marriage, Christian rites that mark the beginning of new life, the newly ordained Deacon Michael Forrest was assisting at ...

There’s a moving passage in the Bible about there being a time for everything. It’s from Ecclesiastes, but most people recognize it as “Turn! Turn! Turn!” a 1965 hit by The Byrds. To everything — turn ...

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 ...

[Editor’s Note: Robert Seelig leads Catholic Funeral & Cemetery Services (CFCS) as CEO and founder. He created the vision for CFCS as “Church helping Church” and as such, he continues to look for ways ...

Last week a funeral mass was celebrated in New York City’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral for Cecilia Gentili, a transgender activist and avowed atheist. The funeral took place on the day after Ash Wednesday ...