Lay people will start to conduct funeral services in the Archdiocese of Liverpool, The Tablet can reveal.Read the rest here.
Twenty-two Lay Funeral Ministers, men and women, have been commissioned to lead funeral services where there is no Requiem Mass and no priest available.
The move, which comes into effect in the autumn, is due to the declining number of priests and the large number of funerals that take place in parts of the archdiocese.
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I thought deacons could perform funerals. Where are the deacons?
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