Two of my favorite cemeteries are thousands of miles apart. One is in rural Minnesota, about thirty miles from my home. To me, it is a symbol of the church triumphant and the church militant, because it completely surrounds a church building. No one can enter any of the doors to the church without walking through the cemetery, past the graves of relatives, friends, neighbors, and acquaintances. It seems to me that no one could belong to and attend that church without having genuine perception of the true nature of the Christian Church. It is made up of the living and the dead - through Jesus Christ - and the hope of both groups of people is continuing life in the kingdom of God.

The other cemetery is thousands of miles away - in Rome; it is called the Campo Verano, and it is the cemetery …