The Diocese of Arlington and Catholic University are trying to identify who is buried in the unmarked graves at a cemetery ...

Sometimes "silent as the grave" isn't just a metaphor. A team of student and professional history detectives -- led by Laura Masur, assistant professor of anthropology at The Catholic University of ...

For decades, a short, wiry priest was the go-to guy in Utah’s Catholic diocese. Like an Energizer Bunny, Monsignor J. Terrence Fitzgerald was a “consummate problem solver,” observers said, managing ...

Parishioners stand and sing a recessional hymn at the conclusion of Mass at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Cedar Rapids on Dec. 20, 2025. The church would no longer host a regular Sunday mass under ...

Ron Ernharth, foreman at New St. Mary Cemetery & Mausoleum in Bellmawr, poses for a photo at the cemetery, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. (Photos by Lori M. Nichols) BELLMAWR – It’s a brisk day in this Month ...

Death awaits at the end of every human life, and this profound event is also the entry point to the final judgment by Jesus that will determine the permanent destination of every human soul: heaven or ...

Continuing with last week’s column which examined the early history of Mt. Carmel Cemetery, we find that by 1877, Father Willigan, the pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church had purchased 40 acres of ...

This Halloween, my favorite Catholic cemetery, off the beaten path in rural Northern Utah, has transfigured into a much happier haunt. Pioneer monks from Kentucky's Gethsemani Abbey, where Thomas ...

With only about 1,700 residents, the Peninsula town of Colma considers itself small — but that’s only if you count the living. Add the dead, and it becomes the Bay Area’s largest “city,” home to more ...

ST. LANDRY PARISH — History is coming alive this weekend in Opelousas — literally. The St. Landry Catholic Church Cemetery, one of the oldest in Louisiana, will once again open its gates for its ...

NEW ORLEANS (OSV News) — A funeral urn filled with ashes was found abandoned in 2022 on a park bench in Tennessee, more than 1,000 miles east of Minneapolis. As Jamie Moloney, director of pastoral ...