Catholic funerals express the Christian hope in eternal life and the resurrection of the body on the last day. Every component of Catholic funeral rites should express these fundamental ...

Ernest “Ernie” Crowder, 87, of Lake Michigan Beach died Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025, at Borgess Ascension Hospital in Kalamazoo.

Former Warren County Sheriff Jerry “Peanuts” Gaines has died.Warren County Sheriff Brett Hightower and the Warren County ...

Abrafoɔ enforcers stormed Adum during the Asantehemaa's funeral rites to punish lockdown violators with traditional authority Manhyia Palace enforced a strict lockdown from September 14 to 18, ...

Eugene “Gene” Wiersma, 74, of Cloquet, passed away on May 31st, 2025, surrounded by his family at St. Luke’s Hospital in Duluth, MN. Born on December 22nd, 1950, to Merton and Evina (Uhden) Wiersma in ...

Alfred LaVern Mason, 97, longtime educator and Masonic leader, died April 26, 2025, in Cape Girardeau. He is survived by four children, nine grandchildren and a large extended family. Alfred LaVern ...

Even before Saturday's funeral service for Pope Francis at the Vatican, the leader known as "the People's Pope" had already broken with some traditions in the ways pontiffs are laid to rest. His body ...

Around 200,000 people flocked to St. Peter's Square in Vatican City for the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday. In the days leading up to the funeral Mass, the Vatican said more than 150,000 filed ...

Although Pope Francis simplified the papal funeral rites in a move of typical modesty, Saturday’s ceremony will still be full of pomp and pageantry, as the world’s Catholics bid him farewell and ...