What is the attitude of the Catholic Church regarding cremation?
Throughout the centuries the Catholic Church has followed the practice of burial of a body, out of respect for the body as a member of Christ’s body and because of faith in the resurrection of the body. It has remained the traditional practice primarily because various groups in the past have promoted cremation as a defiance of Church teaching on the resurrection of the body. That situation no longer is prevalent. So since about 1963 the Church has permitted cremation…as long as it is not a sign of disrespect for the body or resurrection. (just f.y.i.
