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To: Wallace T.
Once, I would have echoed that statement, but many aging members of my extended family are also choosing to be cremated (in SE Pa.) - and that was a shock to me as they are devout Italian lineage Catholics.

And increasingly, this is not unique, it seems.

12 posted on 08/08/2007 10:10:26 AM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: bill1952
Once, I would have echoed that statement, but many aging members of my extended family are also choosing to be cremated (in SE Pa.) - and that was a shock to me as they are devout Italian lineage Catholics.

And increasingly, this is not unique, it seems.


That is a pity. It shows how poorly Catechized we Catholics are in this modern day and age. Interestingly, The Remnant happens to have an article on this very topic recently posted on their web site. It makes for interesting reading, as it gives a history of the Church's position against cremation. Fascinating stuff. There is also some strange stuff there about Masonic plots, which I know nothing about one way or the other, but the historical info is worth a read.

http://www.remnantnewspaper.com/Archives/archive-2007-church_and_cremation.htm
19 posted on 08/08/2007 10:57:59 AM PDT by Zetman
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