Can my grandma have a Catholic burial if her ashes were separated by another family member? Answer: The Church requests that the remains of the deceased not be divided. However, this would not preclude someone from having a Catholic funeral. The faithful have a right to the funeral rites of...
(2) The Catholic Church.—We have already noted the rapid expansion of Christianity throughout northern Africa; the splendor which it derived from its many faithful, its doctors, anchorites, confessors, and martyrs; the divisions that crept in; how it spread, on the one hand, from Alexandria...