Must a Catholic have a funeral?

[Cristiano]

******I respect the fact that everyone here has a different opinion, but the Catholic Church is not a “Church” of “Opinions”. A thing is either “right” or it is “wrong”. What was formerly very “Wrong” cannot now become a “Right”. It is a paradox at best, and a grave indication of where the Mainstream Church is headed. Masonic practice is not a part of the Catholic Faith. If it is deemed OK now to be a Mason, and formerly was prohibited, it isn’t because the “Church” became “Better”! I would like to make a suggestion to those who are on this page and making comments. Please, please, please read the book “The Rhine Flows Into the Tiber.” Read also the “Pascendi” of Pope Saint Pius X. Both books can be purchased on Ebay from “Catholic Treasure of the Lord Books.” for a reasonable price. “If men do not speedily pronounce sentence against evil, then men will do evil without any fear.” - St. Francis de Sales.

In the Catholic Church it WRONG to sell disciplines as dogmas. Disciplines can change and have changed upon pastoral circumstances, and it is wrong to reject the Code of Canon Law because that means disobedience to the Church. Being a regular Catholic or TLM one does not make any difference, we are bound by the same disciplines. Within the allowed disciplines we still have right to behave the way we prefer and we cannot accuse others or doing wrong either. I tend to agree with you on the preference of the burial of the whole body in a consecrated cemetery, but that it is my preference as allowed by the CCL.

 

[Corki]

I’m a CATHOLIC…I couldn’t care less how you subdivide yourselves.

As one poster has in her profile “Catholic - no adjectives”.

 

[Irishgal49]

As one poster has in her profile “Catholic - no adjectives”.

I love it!!!

 

[maryjk]

• Goody for them…I have to make that statement, because cremation is not respecting the body of a Baptized Catholic, who is a Temple of the Holy Ghost. Has the “Fact” that “You are a Temple of the Holy Ghost” been drive from your minds? What if the Blessed Virgin Mary’s body had been cremated? What if St. John Vianney, St. Catherine Laboure, St. Bernadette of Lourdes, St. Francis Xavier’s bodies had been cremated? Where would be the miracle of the incorruption of their Holy Remains? Where would we put their relics? This isnt’ in keeping with what the Catholic Church has always taught. 2,000 years of practice and Tradition blown up in ones face, because Masonic practice is now implemented in the Mainstream Church. Think about it.

What I think about is that the Catholic Church has approved cremation. And I am the same kind of Catholic as the Pope.

And IrishGal, you are correct. There is a problem with refusing to accept the teachings of the Church.