Rev. Thomas Petri, O.P. is President of the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. / Credit: EWTN News Nightly Dec. 14, 2023
CNA Newsroom, Dec 15, 2023 / 09:20 am (CNA).
A leading Catholic moral theologian this week offered insight into… […]
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St. Louis, Mo., Mar 23, 2023 / 14:50 pm (CNA).
The U.S. bishops’ doctrine committee on Thursday issued a statement reiterating the Church’s preference for burial of the deceased and stating that newer metho… […]
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St. Louis, Mo., Sep 20, 2022 / 13:33 pm (CNA).
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday signed a bill into law that will allow the composting of human remains — a bill that the state’s Catholic Conference had opposed.The proce… […]
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Denver Newsroom, May 31, 2022 / 14:20 pm (CNA).
A Catholic woman who sued the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office claiming her son was cremated in violation of her religious beliefs will likely soon receive a settlement of n… […]
MADISON, Wisconsin — A bill that would allow disposing of dead human bodies by dissolving them in a caustic chemical bath was approved without debate Tuesday by the Wisconsin Senate. The proposal, opposed by Wisconsin’s […]
Upon first receiving my review copy of this substantive little book (it is truly a work in the situation of multum in parvo), I assumed it would be classic Scott Hahn: robust Catholic teaching informed […]
There’s something inexplicably profound about the dead, buried body, even as it decays to bones and dust. It reminds man of his morality, while suggesting, via the tension of a corpse that looks and feels […]
We used to keep death close, even stare it in the face: the skull on the desk beside the book, the graveyard right next to the church, crypts under the floors where we knelt. We […]
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