The glories of heaven, what will they be ... It is an unnatural phenomenon, whatever funeral orators may say to the contrary; for God created man, not to die, but to live on and on.

They shall suffer the punishment of eternal destruction and exclusion from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might ... his/her life on earth. A funeral is held for friends ...

For Pope Francis’s final rituals, which culminate with his funeral mass and burial on Saturday, many more of those symbolic trappings have been shed, some at his own request — the ...