By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, who will celebrate his 88th birthday this month, has approved simplified liturgical rites for the death of a pontiff. His body will rest in a zinc-lined wooden casket, according to the new rites. Recent popes had been buried inside a cypress wood coffin surrounded […]
Rest in peace: the church’s funeral rites
The church’s funeral rites ‘offer worship, praise and thanksgiving to God for the gift of a life which has now been returned to God’ By Darlene J.M. Dela Cruz Hawaii Catholic Herald “He shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there shall no longer be any death; there shall no longer be any […]