Blessed Are Those Who Mourn: A Forgotten Beatitude
By JAMES MONTI When reflecting upon the sacredness of all human life, a cemetery is probably not the first thing that comes to our mind. And yet a Catholic cemetery is actually one of the Church’s most profound expressions of this truth by affirming in practice that every human life is so sacred that even the lifeless human body devoid of the soul remains a sacred object. For the body is an essential part of our human nature, it has served in life as the Temple of the Holy Trinity, and it will be restored to us at the end of time. Moreover, in this day and age when attacks of unprecedented depravity upon marriage and the very identity of…Continue Reading