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A former priest is building pine caskets and urns in a century-old church in Minnesota with a goal of making funerals more affordable.

For much of the Catholic Church’s 2,000-year existence, bodies of the faithful were destined for cemetery plots or mausoleum tombs. There you rested, unless you became a saint, in which case ...

Wilkerson builds a DIY cremation urn for the garden of innocence.

CREMATION RULES. A selection of urns are seen on display in the mortuary at Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Lafayette, Calif. While cremation is not prohibited unless it is chosen for reasons ...

CHICAGO — The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago has opened its first cremation garden. The garden at All Saints Cemetery in Des Plaines was created because of the growing number of Catholics ...

The Vatican announced Tuesday that Catholics may be cremated but should not have their ashes scattered at sea or kept in urns at home.

A rise in cremation rates has prompted a new project at one of the properties operated by New Orleans Catholic Cemeteries.

The national Catholic Cemetery Conference is raising alarms about a potential option for disposing of human bodies: dissolving them.

Cremation was not permitted in the Catholic Church on the basis of the hope for resurrection, but the Church decided in 1963 that cremation would no longer be opposed: allowing those who were cremated ...

Important shifts came when the Catholic Church condoned cremation in 1963 and later allowed cremated remains in funeral masses in 1997.

Catholic Church clarifies cremation rules, says ashes shouldn’t be scattered By Roxana Kopetman, Orange County Register and Chris Haire, Orange County Register ...