California Catholic Daily
December 12, 2011
Increasing popularity of cremation leads San Francisco archdiocese to approve parish’s plans for niches to hold incinerated remains
San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer has given his approval to plans by a Dominican parish to build a columbarium with 320 niches for the cremated remains of parishioners, the archdiocesan newspaper Catholic San Francisco reports.
The newspaper described the plans at St. Dominic’s Catholic Church as “a first for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and a sign of how things have changed from the past when the Catholic Church banned cremation except for extraordinary circumstances such as an outbreak of the plague.”
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Thanks to the Death and More Blog for alerting us to this article.
