This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The Vatican announced Tuesday that Catholics ...

Last Tuesday, Catholics around the world received sobering news from the Vatican: No more storing cremated ashes at home, splitting them up among family members or scattering them in the wild. Instead ...

The Vatican has issued new guidelines regarding the preservation of ashes, recommending that the cremated human remains of Catholics be buried in cemeteries rather than scattered or kept at home.

ROME -- The Vatican announced Tuesday that Catholics may be cremated but should not have their ashes scattered at sea or kept in urns at home. According to new guidelines from the Vatican's doctrinal ...

In recent years, Catholics have increasingly chosen to scatter the ashes of loved ones – or keep them close by, at home – as a way to honor their lives. The Vatican, though, doesn’t condone the ...

Strict new guidelines from the Vatican has banned the scattering of the ashes of the dead, calling the practice “pantheism.” The Church has even gone so far as to say that those who request it for ...

Manila Archdiocese says it will bless urns containing the ashes of coronavirus victims every Sunday after each Mass until Nov. 8. The archdiocese said the Rite of Blessing for the Dead would be ...

ROME — The Vatican announced Tuesday that Catholics may be cremated but should not have their ashes scattered at sea or kept in urns at home. According to new guidelines from the Vatican’s doctrinal ...

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

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ROME — The Vatican announced Tuesday that ...