The Vatican is now controlling the ash placement...including not allowing members to keep the urn at home.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/vatican-no-more-scattering-cremation-ashes-100117264.html

For a long time the Catholic Church had, as part of canon law, a law against cremation (canon law appies to Catholics only and can be changed by rthe Church at any time). The practice of cremating bodies, with ashes kept in all kinds of disrespectful places, or scattered to the four winds, is not respectful to the human body, a temple of the Holy Spirit.

In 1992 my non-Catholic father died, and his will specified that he be cremated. I was executor of his estate and I went along with it, not having much choice. He was cremated in Nevada where he had been living, and his ashes transportated to Florida, where he was buried with honors (WW2 veteran). I was uncomfortable with it, but I said I had little choice. It did reduce transportation cost. My Baptist aunt, my father's sister, told me she did not like cremation either.

The Christian faith has always been that all bodies, saved or reprobate, will rise in the day Jesus returns. While all bodies can rise, cremated or not, it seems to me more respectful to the dead not to cremate bodies. Especially disrespctcul are cases I hear of cremated ashes kept in an urn on a coffee table. I would like to see the Church re-instate the ban on cremation.

The Church has authority to make rules for its members. See Matthew 16:19.

Yes, the Church is our teacher, an infallible teacher that taught the world about Christ. The Church does teach us how to behave (the ten commandments and the laws of the Church, and one law we formerly had was no cremation), and it does teach us what to believe---the articles of faith.

Jesus promised not to leave us orphans. He left us the Church.

The Church has authority to make rules for its members. See Matthew 16:19.

Yes, the Church is our teacher, an infallible teacher that taught the world about Christ. The Church does teach us how to behave (the ten commandments and the laws of the Church, and one law we formerly had was no cremation), and it does teach us what to believe---the articles of faith.

Jesus promised not to leave us orphans. He left us the Church.

Non-Catholic Christians are always accusing the Catholic Church of adopting pagan practices. Here we have cremation, a particularly despicable pagan practice, and you guys are defending it. What gives?

Respect should be showed for the dead. Cremation does not show proper respect for the dead.

We need to make a couple of distinctions here. The Church does not teach that cremation is morally wrong. It only formerly had a rule against it, a rule binding on Catholics only, which my father was not. The rule was in place to respect the dead, to remind us that the body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, and to remind us of the resurrection to come.

Matthew 16:19 shows that the Church is indeed supposed to be a governing body.

The hierarchy of the Church can loose or bind---make rules for members or repeal those rules later---according to Matthew 16:19. The people must obey or commit sin. The Church never binds non-Catholics in this way. If you want to be cremated no one will stop you.

If it doesn't make sense to loose and bind ehy did Jesus give Peter this authority? Are you going to tell Jesus to His Face that the things He said make no sense?

I certainly would charge Him cash. And if He and Jiseph came out and made an addition in my house, I would pay them cash. That's the way the economy works.

If Jesus or anyone else were flat broke and stranded I might take Him for free---I do that occasionally.