Deaths and Tributes

4+ hour, 41+ min ago   (300+ words) How volunteers in a North Jakarta kampung care for the dead Stacked neatly inside a cabinet were rolls of white kafan cloth, bottles of perfume, gloves, cotton, ropes, and other equipment needed to prepare a Muslim body for burial. ‘This…...

9+ hour, 53+ min ago   (94+ words) WKYT Omaha archdiocese to honor Father Flanagan’s path to sainthood with Mass of Thanksgiving Man arrested after 11-month-old found dead in Muhlenberg Co. home 2 dead, several hurt after Amish buggy crash Victim's mother speaks on girl pushing son from train…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1218+ words) Latecomer Sheila Brett was mousing into church when the organist caught wind and threw his hands onto the keys. The dramatic chord turned every head towards her. It was the 1970s and Lismore, a small south-west town that boomed after a…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (747+ words) Filipino Divine Word missionary and prominent missiologist Fr. Edgar Javier, SVD, who devoted five decades to missionary work, priestly formation and theological education, died on September 8 at the age of 77. According to a report by CBCP News, Fr. Javier died…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (272+ words) Elson investigated God’s disappearance amid the social upheavals of atheism, the Tonkin Resolution, sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll. But those are dwarfed by the colonialist trials endured by tribes populating countless missions like this. Now, not even Rome attempts to downplay…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (355+ words) September 9, 2026By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News (OSV News) — An Illinois diocese has done away with eulogies during funeral Masses and also visitation of the deceased in the church immediately before the Mass. Bishop Thomas J....

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (98+ words) The Catholic Diocese of Murang’a has announced the death of Rev. Fr. Anthony Chege. In a statement, the Diocese conveyed the news with profound sorrow and humble acceptance of God’s will, saying the priest had been called from his earthly…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (62+ words) The German philosopher Karl Marx famously said religion was “the opium for the masses.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Charles Darwin, and Sigmund Freud, along with a host of other notable thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, were in adamant…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (251+ words) “The vigil by definition is the night before,” said Bishop Paprocki. “So the vigil prayers will be prayed then by the priest or deacon even if there is no public visitation.” He also encouraged family members to join the priest…...

1+ week, 56+ min ago   (1148+ words) The new warning comes after the Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, said “the fixing of the funding of palliative care and social care” needs to happen before Parliament debates whether to introduce assisted suicide. Burnham said it would be deeply challenging…...