Cemetery

For the 12th consecutive year, Pope Francis visited a Roman cemetery November 2. This year, he prayed for parents facing perinatal grief. Every week, La Croix's permanent special correspondent in the Vatican reveals the behind-the-scenes of the world's smallest state....

Many regard a cemetery as a thin place, a liminal space where the veil between us and eternity is almost transparent. But while the ground is consecrated, set aside for a sacred purpose, it is not the physical location itself that precipitates such grace....