another Catholic question?

[rabbitearbandicoot]

is it true that if you are a Catholic, when you die you cannot be cremated? 

[fourandsixpants]

It has been allowed by the Catholic Church for more than 50 years.

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wow. ......

[lionofjudah60]

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@imastawka wrote:

Dunno about anybody else, but, in my experience the will has been

read after the funeral.  So, bit of bad luck there then

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Obviously because that is because there is normally no dispute over the burial .I can show you cases where there has been and they have had to go to court and test the will.If there is a dispute the will is read BEFORE the funeral.

[fourandsixpants]

It has been allowed by the Catholic Church for more than 50 years.

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wow. ......wonder why they decided to change the goal posts on this particular ruling?

Bit like when this church decided to allow their followers to attend mass on a Saturday night, instead of Sunday's .....back in the mid 1970's ?.....in an attempt to keep the young folk attendances up. 

....or when the pope was declared not infallible anymore, back in the mid 1940's ?

....or when catholic mass was spoken in english instead of Latin?

.....or when the catholic priests started saying mass facing the congregation instead of with back turned to congregation or as earlier - from behind a 'screen' ?

I guess the rules are changed for different reasons in many churches.

[lionofjudah60]

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@cmcoins2000 wrote:

I would like to see you go against my wishes.

As set in my written Will.

Religion or no Religion.

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And what would you do about it?Nothing.You would be dead.

[cmcoins2000]

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@lionofjudah60 wrote:

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@cmcoins2000 wrote:

I would like to see you go against my wishes.

As set in my written Will.

Religion or no Religion.

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And what would you do about it?Nothing.You would be dead.

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A Will has two - at least - witnesses.

Those witnesses are privy to the contents of the Will.

As this is a churchy thread - Thy Will Be Done.

[polksaladallie]

I wanted to go to a body farm, but am told that there is none in Australia.  Not sure I believe that.

So the next best thing is to donate to science, U of Q.

[raptor_rebooted]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

I wanted to go to a body farm, but am told that there is none in Australia.  Not sure I believe that.

So the next best thing is to donate to science, U of Q.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-19/body-farm-to-study-decomposing-human-corpses-set-up-in-sydney/...

contact the UTS maybe?

[raptor_rebooted]

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@paintsew007 wrote:

It has been allowed by the Catholic Church for more than 50 years.

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wow. ......

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i think the only religion that strictly forbids it,

is islam.

i'm sure they all have their own good reasons...

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

Islam requires true believers to be cut up into pieces, threaded on a skewer, and turned into shishkabob  for the grieving relatives......interspersed with peppers, onions, and cherry tomatoes, of course.

[raptor_rebooted]

omg