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Q. I ve been having conflicting ideas about cremation. My husband wants to be cremated; at first, I was all for it, but now I m having a difficult time with that decision. I know in the Apostles Creed it says, the resurrection of the body, and I also know that the Church prefers burial of the body, even though it does allow cremation followed by immediate burial of the ashes. Can you help me with these two options? (Wichita, Kansas) A. For many centuries, the Catholic Church did not allow cremation. Historically, cremation was linked to the burial practices of pagans, whose religious beliefs did not include the expectation of eventual resurrection and viewed death as the definitive obliteration of the human person. It was only in 1963 that the Church began to allow cremation as it became more commonplace for both economic and sanitary reasons.

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