
Liquefied Bodies? Archbishop of Dubuque Encourages Strange Alternative Burial Methods
“The Church earnestly recommends the pious custom of burying the bodies of the dead be observed...” (Canon 1176)
“The Church earnestly recommends the pious custom of burying the bodies of the dead be observed...” (Canon 1176)
If burying the dead is a corporal work of mercy, where does that leave cremation?
COMMENTARY: Because his body is the body of a person — a human person redeemed by Christ, who ‘became flesh and lived among us’ — that body is sacred, a temple of the Holy Spirit, a sacramental.
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