The current funerals of the Roman Catholic Church are observed according to the funeral rites which were revised by the above document and published in 1969 as the Catholic liturgical book "Ordo exsequiarum" and is translated into several foreign languages, and two characteristics can be mentioned as compared with the view of funerals before the revision.
現代のカトリック教会における葬儀は、この文書をうけて改訂され、1969年に発表されたカトリック教会の儀式書『葬儀』およびその各国語訳に基づいておこなわれているが、それ以前のものと比べると二つの特徴をあげることができる。