But in recent years, the rites have been simplified. As Pope Francis has mandated, here are the steps that the ritual will follow. The funeral rites take place in three parts, called stations.

These rites of passage were considered the price of success, but Generation Z isn’t having it. This new generation of workers is questioning the traditions their parents and older co-workers ...

Just about every man remembers his first fight. It’s a common rite of passage. Mine was when I was 8 years old, on the school bus, with a classmate who was teasing my younger sister. I stepped ...

Just about every man remembers his first fight. It’s a common rite of passage. Mine was when I was 8 years old, on the school bus, with a classmate who was teasing my younger sister. I stepped ...

As boys and girls leave behind childhood antics and advance toward adulthood, they must contend with society’s rites of passage. In the past, little boys sported their first pair of long pants and put ...

The rite of passage versus the right to privacy is what we are grappling with. We can’t dismiss the trauma that can be inflicted when we ignore the right to privacy. Given that the results are now ...

Dressed in flowers, finery and make-up, scores of boys were paraded around a temple in Thailand after having their heads shaved – a symbolic start to a centuries-old Shan monkhood ordination ...