The custom of including the Ten Commandments as part of the Shema was once widespread, but from a certain point in time it was systematically opposed by the Sages. Why did they object to it?

The priest gives us a penance after Confession ... are deprived of the merit of their good works and need our prayers. The dead can in no way help themselves and depend on us for assistance.

The Rt Rev John Perumbalath announced his resignation on January 30 - two days after a Channel 4 News investigation reported ...

where in the prayers of the priest poured forth to the Lord God at his altar the commendation of the dead has its place." St. Augustine of Hippo, "The Care to be Had for the Dead" c.

All of that is inevitable, but it becomes dangerous when we mistake religion for God or reduce God to the parameters of ...