cemetery Archives

Bound by shared grief, staff assists families at natural burial ground

Dec 1, 2019

Staff members at a natural cemetery in Georgia know what it means when heartfelt requests come from grieving families. Three of the staff members themselves have family buried among the trees and the grasslands.

By Andrew Nelson

Forensic experts to study ‘thousands of bones’ found in Vatican ossuaries

Jul 22, 2019

During a search for the remains of a young Italian woman missing for more than 30 years, workers discovered an enormous number of bones inside two ossuaries in a building next to a Vatican cemetery.

By Carol Glatz

Vatican cemetery to be searched in decades-old missing girl case

Jul 2, 2019

Thirty-six years after the disappearance of 15-year old Italian girl Emanuela Orlandi, the Vatican announced on Tuesday that two graves located in the German cemetery within Vatican grounds will be opened on July 11, following the allegations made by her family that her body is there.

By Inés San Martín

Dispute resolved in proposed ‘rapist’ priests gravestone

Jan 1, 2018

A compromise has finally been reached between a man who wanted an inflammatory message on his mother’s gravestone and the diocese in charge of the cemetery to the satisfaction of both sides.

By Associated Press

Students keep soldiers’ memory alive at U.S. cemetery Pope visits today

Nov 2, 2017

The ‘Be the Difference – Never Again’ highlights those who risked their lives to save others during WWII, including the soldiers buried in the military cemetery in Nettuno, where Pope Francis will celebrate Mass on Thursday. Its mission is to inspire people to take action in their lives and focus on events in history that demonstrate the power an individual has to make a difference in someone’s life.

By Claire Giangravè

Cemetery won’t allow mention of “rapist” priests at grave

Oct 22, 2017

In a climate where clergy sex abuse continues to be discussed in the wake of high profile cases in Australia and the Vatican itself, a man in the Diocese of Joliet in Illinois, is in a disagreement with that diocese over explicit language that he wants on his mother’s grave marker to acknowledge her work on behalf of victims of clergy sex abuse.

By Associated Press