another Catholic question?

[rabbitearbandicoot]

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

[cmcoins2000]

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@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

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@horizon1907 wrote:

Why don't you pay a visit to a Catholic Church and ask a Priest ? 🙂

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the last time I was in a church, I got married ..... learned my lesson.... it was a Church of England.

I also went into a Catholic Church once ... a very good friend had died ... a funeral.

so you can see, my experiences in Churches have been ... shall we say ... not all that positive.

hang on, that's not true - when we went to UK we went into several churches, abbeys etc.

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It is not the churches you have to be afraid of.

It is the religion.

[raptor_rebooted]

Religious views on cremation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cremation

Catholic Cremation

http://www.catholic-cemeteries.org/cremation.aspx

[rabbitearbandicoot]

we went to Shrewsbury Abbey - amazing especially if you are a Cadfael fan.

we also went to an Abbey on Isle of Wight (sp) - that was especially amazing, as it was once a private house and my great-grandfather was employed as a coach driver there. The coach yards are all still intact as are the stables and the archway into the yard where all would have boarded or left the coach.

Anyway, I ramble!  

So, it's not a requirement by the Church?

[imastawka]

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@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

it's just that a friend of my sisters has died - she left instructions that she (Catholic) wanted to be cremated, but the children who are Catholic are trying to stop it.

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  That's pretty carppy.  Why aren't they respecting her wishes?

[raptor_rebooted]

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@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

it's just that a friend of my sisters has died - she left instructions that she (Catholic) wanted to be cremated, but the children who are Catholic are trying to stop it.

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is your sister trying to help them 

sort it out?

[cmcoins2000]

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@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

we went to Shrewsbury Abbey - amazing especially if you are a Cadfael fan.

we also went to an Abbey on Isle of Wight (sp) - that was especially amazing, as it was once a private house and my great-grandfather was employed as a coach driver there. The coach yards are all still intact as are the stables and the archway into the yard where all would have boarded or left the coach.

Anyway, I ramble!  

So, it's not a requirement by the Church?

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Think it is more a 'belief' of the church - ultimately the church has no say - as far as your personal decsisions are concerned.

Matters of state - wills etc.

Depends the particular person's wishes.

Put me in a green glad bag - fine.

But then I am a Pantheist - meaning I love all the Gods & Goddesses for that matter.

[raptor_rebooted]

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@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

we went to Shrewsbury Abbey - amazing especially if you are a Cadfael fan.

we also went to an Abbey on Isle of Wight (sp) - that was especially amazing, as it was once a private house and my great-grandfather was employed as a coach driver there. The coach yards are all still intact as are the stables and the archway into the yard where all would have boarded or left the coach.

Anyway, I ramble!  

So, it's not a requirement by the Church?

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doesn't look like it.  otherwise there would 

not be catholic cremation instructions.

[rabbitearbandicoot]

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

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@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

it's just that a friend of my sisters has died - she left instructions that she (Catholic) wanted to be cremated, but the children who are Catholic are trying to stop it.

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is your sister trying to help them 

sort it out?

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no, not really. She just mentioned that the family are discussing the options. I think one of the children is up here (QLD) where the mother is and the other children are in NSW / VIC.

[raptor_rebooted]

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@horizon1907 wrote:

Why don't you pay a visit to a Catholic Church and ask a Priest ? 🙂

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you'd think asking the priest would be one

of the first things the kids would be doing.

seems a bit strange.

[raptor_rebooted]

here you go.

tell them pope says its ok  

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P4A.HTM