Though the Church permits cremation under limited circumstances, permission is not endorsement. The allowance was born of pastoral concession, not doctrinal approval — a gesture toward human frailty, not a rewriting of divine order. From the earliest centuries, Catholics buried their dead in imitation of Christ, who was laid in a tomb and rose again in the flesh. Burial affirms the sacredness of the body — that temple of the Holy Spirit — and proclaims the resurrection with silent confidence. Cremation, by contrast, reduces the body to dust and denial, turning what once was a vessel of grace into a mere chemical remainder. It is a practice that murmurs denial even as it mouths belief.
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