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To: ContraryMary

No Catholic would ever agree to cremation!


197 posted on 03/24/2005 12:43:55 PM PST by smokeyb
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To: smokeyb

Im Catholic and I want to be cremated... My mother was catholic and she was cremated...


201 posted on 03/24/2005 12:44:43 PM PST by The Hollywood Conservative (I can't even make a tagline because I'm a GIANT IDIOT!!!)
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To: smokeyb
No Catholic would ever agree to cremation!

Another fallacy. While the Church prefers burial, they do allow the faithful to be cremated. The deceased then has a Memorial Mass instead of a Mass of Christian burial.

206 posted on 03/24/2005 12:46:42 PM PST by ContraryMary
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To: smokeyb
No Catholic would ever agree to cremation!

Not True.

Catechism of the Catholic Church

2301 Autopsies can be morally permitted for legal inquests or scientific research. The free gift of organs after death is legitimate and can be meritorious.

The Church permits cremation, provided that it does not demonstrate a denial of faith in the resurrection of the body.

252 posted on 03/24/2005 1:02:17 PM PST by frogjerk
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