Prior tradition laid the pontiff’s body within the airtight caskets and would allow for objects, such as coins and papers issued by the pope during his reign, to be buried with him. The open ...

(JTA) — A funeral procession outside a local church in Rome featured a casket wrapped in a Nazi swastika ... The Italian news site Open was the first to release photos and videos of the scene ...

Pope Francis has announced that he will forgo the traditional, elaborate burial rites of his predecessors in a decision that may modernize the Catholic Church. When the time comes, the 87-year-old ...

Emmett Till’s mother declined an offer from the mortician to “touch up” her son’s body, and she made the decision to have an open casket funeral ... At a church on the South Side ...

VATICAN CITY, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Pope Francis, who has shunned much of the pomp and privilege of leading the global Catholic Church, has decided that a simple wooden casket will suffice when the ...