Irish diocese to arrange funeral services without priests
December 18, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: The Diocese of Clogher in Ireland has commissioned 40 “funeral ministers” to preside at church services and burials, because of a shortage of available priests.
Although the lay-led services could not include a funeral Mass, Bishop Larry Duffy said in a pastoral letter that the arrangement would not be “a lessening of service to families,” but actually “a strengthening of the local parish commitment to accompany people at such a difficult and sensitive time.”
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