CREMATION AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.-ReplyC. A. :doi:10.1001/jama.1887.02400050031016WhelanJohn T.American Medical AssociationJournal of the American Medical Association
The Croats and Serbs seized the country south of the Save. The Croats are the firstborn sons of the Church among the Slays. They were converted, about the year 650, by Roman priests. The Bajuvarii (Bavarians), a people from the West, spread themselves over the whole of Upper Austria...
From time immemorial, Jews and Christians alike forbade cremation, except in times of plague. During the so-called “Enlightenment,” cremation was used as a means of mocking the notion of the resurrection of the body. In 1973, the Church permitted cremation, if no such denial of bodily resu...