Catholics and Cremation

St Pauls: Courtesy of pdphoto.org

The Catholic Star Herald published a story on cremation and one Catholic Diocese. It is up to the local Bishop to decide on cremation and the church service. So the local Bishop in the Diocese of Camden has approved the earthly remains being allowed in the church. The Catholic Church has permitted cremation since the 1600s but only allowed cremains in the church since 1997. The fact is that cremation just hurries along the natural decay of the body. It doesn’t affect the resurrection of the body and Spirit at a later date. Since bodies that are centuries old have already decayed and some people are unfortunate enough to be “cremated” in deaths caused by fire.

The bishop believes that as long as the body is laid to rest “with solemnity and dignity”, two things we believe are important here at Pyrefyre, cremation is acceptable and the cremated remains can be at the church service. The Catholic church still believes that a cremated body should be interned like a non cremated one but Pyrefyre believes that the spreading of the ashes should be your choice. The Bible says that we shall return to the earth with ashes to ashes and dust to dust, so we here at Pyrefyre believe God allows spreading of your ashes.