Australia's Catholic church bans pop songs at funerals

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Australia’s Catholic church bans pop songs at funerals(Reuters Life!) - Football club songs and pop or rock music have been banned from funerals in Catholic churches in Australia under new guidelines distributed this week to priests and funeral directors.

A funeral should not be a “celebration” of the deceased’s life, Archbishop of Melbourne Denis Hart said in the rules, but a final sacred farewell. Celebrations of that life should be held at social occasions before or after the funeral, he said.
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Australia’s Catholic church bans pop songs at funerals(Reuters Life!) - Football club songs and pop or rock music have been banned from funerals in Catholic churches in Australia under new guidelines distributed this week to priests and funeral directors.

A funeral should not be a “celebration” of the deceased’s life, Archbishop of Melbourne Denis Hart said in the rules, but a final sacred farewell. Celebrations of that life should be held at social occasions before or after the funeral, he said.
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A funeral is NOT a celebration of the deceased’s life-that is what wakes are for.A requium mass is a gigantic prayer.Good on the Aussie Church.
 
Very good, but it bothers me that there are priests that even need to be told the basics of the Catholic faith.
 
pnewton said:
Very good, but it bothers me that there are priests that even need to be told the basics of the Catholic faith.
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Yes it bothers us Aussies even more.

The title of the thread should read “An Australian archbishop calls for respect for the rule which the whole Catholic Church has always had, that secular songs and speeches have no place in any Christian liturgy”.

If there is such a thing as “Australia’s Catholic church” [sic] I certainly don’t belong to it.
 
Petergee said:
Yes it bothers us Aussies even more.

The title of the thread should read “An Australian archbishop calls for respect for the rule which the whole Catholic Church has always had, that secular songs and speeches have no place in any Christian liturgy”.

If there is such a thing as “Australia’s Catholic church” [sic] I certainly don’t belong to it.
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The forum policy is to use the title of the article.

I didn’t write the title, Reuters did. 🤷
 
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