10-06-2004, 08:44 PM
Arpikarhu Wrote:The Jays Wrote:Try not, dumbass. Catholics are allowed to be cremated, but the cremains must be placed in the ground. They must be put in an urn and put in the ground, together. So, no, try not.CITE YOUR SOURCES!!
Quote:Catholic burial practice calls for the cremains to be buried in an urn within a consecrated grave or placed inside a mausoleum. Keeping ashes at home or scattering them on land or sea, even where legal, is inappropriate to the Church's deep reverence for the body as a place where the soul has resided, As "Our Sunday Visitor's Catholic Encyclopedia" notes:
"Cremation was the normal custom in the ancient civilized world, except in Egypt, Judea and China. It was repugnant to early Christians because of the belief in the resurrection of the body. By the fifth century, cremation had been largely abandoned in the Roman Empire because of Christian influence."
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