Church rules on cremation & what we did with Dad

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Procedural Vatican news about the care and preservation of human cremains has me belatedly wondering if we did the old man right.



Dead 12 years, we created the crap out of him in ’04.



Papal officers say cremation is permissible only if the ashy remains aren’t divvied up, strewn about or kept on some mantel at home. They must, instead, be stored in a sacred,