[hispanichoosier]

My pastor has at times denied burial to people who have been cremated for wrong reasons, but those cases are few and far between.

Karl Keating explained why cremation was frowned upon by the Church for a long time. He said that it was fashionable in the 1700s and 1800s in Europe to deny the bodily resurrection at the Second Coming. Many European dissidents from the Church would, thus, have themselves cremated upon death as a final "in your face" to the Church. Mr. Keating said that cremation is licit today as long as it is not done with the intent of denying the bodily resurrection.

As an aside, I ask those of you who will shortly villify Karl Keating as a modernist to refrain from doing so. I've heard all your tired complaints and arguments. As a result, I don't want to hear them again. He's a fine, orthodox layman who has done more for apologetics than any other layman in the last 20 years.

[redgolum]

That is pretty much why my pastor would not allow it at times.

He has allowed a few in cases where the people honestly had no idea that it was forbidden, but the service was not held at the church.

[Conservative til I die]

Also, I believe Keating mentions that it has something to do with back in the Roman Empire, when Catholics were routinely burned to death, i.e. turned to ash.

[Selous]

" As an aside, I ask those of you who will shortly villify Karl Keating as a modernist to refrain from doing so"

You're really sticking your head above the trench here. I've got no particular horse in the Karl Keating race, but do you honestly think you can introduce an exemplar into a thread and not expect him/her/it to be held up to the light?