The early Christians abhorred cremation as a pagan practice, and ever since, the Roman Catholic Church has held that the body is not for burning. When cremation was legalized in northern Europe during ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- The Vatican recently reinforced the Church’s stance on cremation. A two-page documents states the faithful should not scatter ashes or split them up. Father Peter Drilling, the ...

A Catholic woman who sued the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office claiming her son was cremated in violation of her religious beliefs will likely soon receive a settlement of nearly half a million ...

An explainer outlines how cremation’s popularity and lower costs intersect with Christian teaching, funeral tradition, and consumer decisions. It compares burial vs cremation across traditions and ...

The Vatican on Tuesday published guidelines for Catholics who want to be cremated, saying their remains cannot be scattered, divvied up or kept at home but rather stored in a sacred, church-approved ...

Although I fully expect that the USCCB’s fall General Assembly this November in Baltimore will be consumed with the clerical sexual abuse scandal (and remain amazed that, given the depth of this ...