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  2. Catholic funeral - Wikipedia

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    Catholic funeral service at St Mary Immaculate Church, Charing Cross. A Catholic funeral is carried out in accordance with the prescribed rites of the Catholic Church.Such funerals are referred to in Catholic canon law as "ecclesiastical funerals" and are dealt with in canons 1176–1185 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law, [1] and in canons 874–879 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. [2]

  3. Cremation in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Cremation in Christianity. Columbarium niches built into the side of St. Joseph's Chapel Mausoleum at the Catholic Mount Olivet Cemetery, Key West (rural Dubuque ), Iowa. Cremation is a method used to dispose of the deceased in the Christian world despite historical opposition to the practice. Acceptance of the practice has grown over the past ...

  4. Christian burial - Wikipedia

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    Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, UK. A Christian burial is the burial of a deceased person with specifically Christian rites; typically, in consecrated ground. Until recent times Christians generally objected to cremation because it interfered with the concept of the resurrection of a corpse, and practiced inhumation almost exclusively.

  5. The Vatican Softens Its Rules for Catholics on Keeping Ashes ...

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    Catholic families may now request to preserve a small portion of their late relative’s cremated remains in a “place of significance” to them, instead of strictly at a church or a cemetery.

  6. Cremation - Wikipedia

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    Cremation is a method of final disposition of a dead body through burning. [1] Cremation may serve as a funeral or post-funeral rite and as an alternative to burial. In some countries, including India, Nepal, and Syria, cremation on an open-air pyre is an ancient tradition. Starting in the 19th century, cremation was introduced or reintroduced ...

  7. Last rites - Wikipedia

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    The Latin Church of the Catholic Church defines Last Rites as Viaticum ( Holy Communion administered to someone who is dying), and the ritual prayers of Commendation of the Dying, and Prayers for the Dead. [7] The sacrament of Anointing of the Sick is usually postponed until someone is near death. Anointing of the Sick has been thought to be ...

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