A funeral will be held on Saturday for the pope, who changed the rules to make such ceremonies simpler than those ...

Although Pope Francis simplified the papal funeral rites in a move of typical modesty, Saturday’s ceremony will still be full ...

Former Catholic priest and longtime Long Island resident Frank McQuade holds his Order of Christian Funerals guide. He is now open to cremation after decades of envisioning a traditional send-off.

In her charming introduction to this anthology, US poet laureate Ada Limón suggests that poems and trees “let us breathe together.” This comment calls to mind priest and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins’s ...

A team of half a dozen Catholic nuns and lawyers have warned of increasing incidents of opposition to Christian funerals and hate campaigns against the Christian community in an eastern Indian state.