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The Vatican Just Banned Scattering Ashes
A new doctrinal rule requires Roman Catholics to store cremains at cemeteries. By Erin Blakemore.
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They can kiss my ash.
Mine too.
Re: Conflicting with Vatican diktat, that is a bold vision! It's like something out of a scary Korean movie. Striking visual!
The Church has always discouraged cremation and always banned the scattering of ashes as contrary to the dignity of the body and symbolic of rejecting a bodily resurrection. This is nothing new.