The 87-year-old pontiff – who turns 88 next month – enacted a new set of liturgical rites aimed at modernizing the Catholic ...

Bigger caskets and plots are also putting cost pressures on families planning funerals. NZ Funeral Directors Association president Tony Garing said the size of the standard coffin had increased as ...

Pope Francis, who has shunned much of the pomp and privilege of leading the global Catholic Church, has decided that a simple ...

Jon and Carie Hallford, who owned Return to Nature Funeral Home, pleaded guilty to 190 counts of abuse of a corpse, reports ...

From clifftop ceremonies to campervan-driven vigils and funeral pyres, Rupert Callender is revolutionising the 'bad theatre' ...

He is foregoing a centuries-old practice of burying popes in three interlocking caskets made of cypress, lead and oak. Read ...

The pope will also not be put on display atop a raised platform after he departs; visitors will still be welcome to pay their ...

A horse-drawn carriage carrying the coffin of Liam Payne arrives for the funeral service of the One Direction singer at St Mary's Church in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Picture date: Wednesday ...

When the time comes for his funeral, Pope Francis says he wants simple ... practice of burying the late pope in three interlocking caskets made of cypress, lead and oak. Instead, Francis will ...