A Rite of Reception is planned for 9 a.m. Saturday at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Providence. Visitation will continue until a Mass of Christian Burial at 11 a.m. The Mass will be ...
For clergy, musicians, and pastoral staff, funerals are often the most sensitive and challenging of responsibilities. For those suffering great loss, grief enters their life, usually to stay. Attendin ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A final Mass was held Saturday at two local Roman Catholic churches, which are being closed as part of the Buffalo Diocese consolidation plan. At St. Thomas Aquinas at 450 Abbott ...
"The renewed rite also needed to emphasize even more that the funeral of the Roman Pontiff is that of a pastor and disciple of Christ and not of a powerful person of this world," added the Archbishop.