Don’t keep urns at home, scatter ashes – Vatican

THE Vatican has reminded the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics not to keep urns containing the cremated remains of their loved ones at home, or even scatter the ashes, while reiterating that the Church allows cremation.

“Following the most ancient Christian tradition, the Church insistently recommends that the bodies of the deceased be buried in cemeteries or other sacred places,” said Cardinal Gerhard Müller, head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in the instruction titled “Ad resurgendum cum Christo (Rise with Christ).”