MELBOURNE (Reuters Life!) - Football club songs and pop or rock music have been banned from funerals in Catholic churches in Australia under new guidelines distributed this week to priests and funeral ...
"O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done." These evocative lines from Walt Whitman's famous poem encapsulate the emotional weight many of us feel when confronted with the end of a life journey ...
Selecting music for a funeral is an emotional task, as the right songs can beautifully capture the essence of the person who has passed. Funeral songs can be soothing, hopeful, or nostalgic, helping ...
A Catholic priest in Northern Ireland has called last week’s funeral Mass for Irish musician Shane MacGowan a scandal. “It was an abuse of what the Mass is and what the Catholic funeral liturgy is all ...