Why would Catholics be against cremation ?

I mean a few people at the funeral said cremation was their choice, it’s what both Mrs squeaky and myself want.
Why would this priest be so against it?

Catholics do not favor cremation because they believe in resurrection of the body after death. They follow the custom of burying the dead, as Jesus Christ was buried in a tomb.

2016
Just in time for All Souls Day on Nov. 2, the Catholic Church has published instructions for the cremation of the “faithfully departed.”
The guidelines, released today (Oct. 25), state that a person’s ashes must be kept in a sacred place, not in a home or other domestic residence, and should not be scattered or divvied up in any way.
https://www.livescience.com/56632-vatican-issues-new-cremation-guidelines.html

Thanks @KNOWITALL this wasn’t meant in the least to start any kind of argument and your article was fine thanks again.
Glad I don’t follow the Catholic faith.
Nice to see at least the Catholics are accepting cremation as a choice now a days.

I am Catholic and I had never heard of that before?
Although not a regular practicing Catholic anymore.
I suspect that money is at the bottom of it rather than Religion, because they get paid for the Service etc

@SQUEEKY2 I didn’t take it that way at all, and I identify as Catholic generally speaking.

The Church changes slowly, you know how it is. I couldn’t believe the churches here allowed mini-skirts 30 years ago, while others were very old-school covering their heads. It’s pretty wild.

By the way looks as if most organized religions will face a change since many are turning away from it.
Spirituality is taking its place.

Not just Catholics – traditional Jews don’t either. Holiness of the body.

The Catholic Church changed its tune on creation in the late 1960s. My father, who was a Papal Knight, was cremated.

@Inspired_2write Most people give the priest an honorarium for saying the memorial mass, not for the burial. And it is not a fee, it is a courtesy.

@zenvelo What did he do to get that? Just curious.

My Vietnamese friends were very proud of their Monsignor uncle in Rome.

@KNOWITALL He took the time out of his schedule to say Mass, to prep with a few words appropriate to the deceased, possibly spent time consoling the grieving family.

Protestant ministers get paid for funerals too.

I’ve never fully understood the opposition to cremation. If you bury a body, it’s not as if it stays intact. It still decomposes and often all that’s left is the skeleton. Is having a skeleton that much better than ashes? A lot of the body will go even if put in a box in the earth. Additionally, many religions stress the lowliness of the body compared with the soul, that the soul is ultimately what matters, so the emphasis on the importance of the body after death is somewhat puzzling to me.

(I was raised in a Catholic family, though I don’t remember this being discussed specifically. A number of my relatives have been cremated).

I shouldn’t be too herd to understand the difficulties a religion so heavily reliant on symbolism might have with cremation when the very goal of said religion is to avoid the “fires of hell.”.

@Demosthenes
Interesting, but I thought that is what they wait three days to bury a person..so that the soul leaves the body.
I thought that it automatically left upon death?

@Inspired_2write Where do you get “three days” from? most Abrahamic religions try to bury before sunset the next day.

@zenvelo
Funerals usually in three days to allow visitors time to get to .
located this website and it looks as it is up to the family to decide how soon or whatever is suitable?

How Long Do I Have To Make Funeral Arrangements?www.ladyannefunerals.com.au › blog › funeral-arrangements-how-lo…
Feb 25, 2016 – Some families opt to hold the funeral and burial as soon as 24 hours after their loved one’s passing. For others, the time between death and the funeral service is around 2–3 days. With proper refrigeration and care at the funeral home, the body will stay preserved until this point.

Honestly I don’t know anyone who does it the next day anymore. It’s getting to be weeks or even months sometimes before the family can fly in. My aunt passed in December and we held a brief burial service but the funeral isn’t until April.

Jewish burials are the next day. So are Islamic burials.

My brother died last November 4; it took four days before the Medical Examiner would release the body for cremation. We held a service on November 26. The ashes have not yet been inurned in the memorial wall.

There are no set “rules” ; there are only some customs that date back centuries. Catholics don;t have any of those rules anymore.

Society sure puts a lot of time and energy into the after life.
From ancient Egyptians to today.
Why all the fuss?
There really is no proof that there is anything after death just a whole lot of beliefs and maybe hopes.