I'm not Catholic, but some of my research involves people buried in a couple of Catholic cemeteries there and in other counties, and I don't know if there is a different set of "rules & regualtions" for a Catholic Cemetery as opposed to any other kind. I read this news article and I don't know why they would expect the Cemetery to pay for the headstones for these stillborns, or anyone else. In all the other cemeteries that I have dealt with, the family is the one who pays for the cost of a burial, as well as the option of putting up a headstone or not. My mom would use the term " buried in pauper's cemetery" and it took me a long time to learn that this was not actually one cemetery by that name! I have found many graves with no headstones, because the family could not afford it, some were pauper burials, some were not. I have also found names on headstones, but the persons were not buried there; the info was there only for "appearances" of families being buried together. So, is this family expecting St. Mary's to pay for a headstone?? My question: Is this a common thing for a Catholic cemetery to do? To pay for the headstones of those buried there, pauper burial or not? If so, wouldn't they look more like the Military Govt cemeteries, where all the stones look alike?? Curious. Dianne