Funeral customs ‘too hard to alter’ in Cork and Kerry

The committee in charge of the funeral liturgy in the Diocese of Kerry has ruled out guidelines which would standardise funeral behaviour there, saying it would be too difficult.

Funeral customs ‘too hard to alter’ in Cork and Kerry

Councillors in Kerry had passed a resolution calling on the Bishop of Kerry, Dr Ray Browne, to put in practice a method whereby the huge crowd of mourners normally turning up at Kerry funerals would be allowed to sympathise with the bereaved within churches.

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