'Beer doesn't tell us anything uplifting about the person who died': Funeral gifts come under fire from priest

Funeral Masses are the latest Catholic tradition being tarnished by modern churchgoers, a Cork priest has said.

'Beer doesn't tell us anything uplifting about the person who died': Funeral gifts come under fire from priest

Funeral Masses are the latest Catholic tradition being tarnished by modern churchgoers, a Cork priest has said.

Fr Tomas Walsh, who has previously spoken out about Godless Godparents and disrespecting the Holy Eucharist, has criticised behaviour he has seen at funerals.

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