Springfield diocese’s new funeral rules ban family eulogies and limit same-day church visitations before Catholic funeral ...

As her elderly mother was dying, Barbara Johnson lay next to her on the hospital bed, reciting the "Hail Mary." Loetta Johnson, 85, had been a devout Catholic, raising her four children in the church ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mourners have paid their respects to the Pope in St Peter’s Basilica - Dylan Martinez/REUTERS The Vatican has published the order ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago promulgated revised guidelines for funerals on All Souls' Day. The document doesn't exactly break new ground in its recommendations, which range from when and where a ...

GAITHERSBURG, Md. (WUSA) -- It's been an extremely difficult week for Barbara Johnson --perhaps the most difficult week of her life. It all started on Saturday at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in ...

The Archdiocese of Washington is apologizing to a local woman for a priest's alleged behavior at her mother's funeral. Barbara Johnson says the priest denied her communion at the Mass because of her ...

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 ...