Springfield diocese’s new funeral rules ban family eulogies and limit same-day church visitations before Catholic funeral ...

As her elderly mother was dying, Barbara Johnson lay next to her on the hospital bed, reciting the "Hail Mary." Loetta Johnson, 85, had been a devout Catholic, raising her four children in the church ...

GAITHERSBURG, Md. (WUSA) -- It's been an extremely difficult week for Barbara Johnson --perhaps the most difficult week of her life. It all started on Saturday at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in ...

A Catholic bishop has instructed priests in his central Illinois diocese to deny communion, last rites and funeral rites to people in same-sex marriages – unless they repent. In the decree he sent to ...

The Archdiocese of Washington is apologizing to a local woman for a priest's alleged behavior at her mother's funeral. Barbara Johnson says the priest denied her communion at the Mass because of her ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago promulgated revised guidelines for funerals on All Souls' Day. The document doesn't exactly break new ground in its recommendations, which range from when and where a ...