Title — 1917 Code of Canon Law
Title XII: Of Ecclesiastical Burial
Superseded as law in 1983 — read why this Code still matters. Each canon links to its 1983 counterpart.
§ 1. The bodies of the faithful departed are to be buried, their cremation being reprobated.
§ 2. If anyone in any way has ordered that his body be cremated, it is illicit to execute this will; if it has been added to a contract, testament, or any other act, it is to be held as not added.
§ 1. Fidelium defunctorum corpora sepelienda sunt, reprobata eorundem crematione.
§ 2. Si quis quovis modo mandaverit ut corpus suum cremetur, illicitum est hanc exsequi voluntatem; quae si adiecta fuerit contractui, testamento aut alii cuilibet actui, tanquam non adiecta habeatur.
1983 Code correlation: can. 1176
Ecclesiastical burial consists in the transfer of the corpse to the church, the obsequies celebrated over it in the same, and its deposition in a place legitimately deputed for burying the faithful departed.
Sepultura ecclesiastica consistit in cadaveris translatione ad ecclesiam, exsequiis super illud in eadem celebratis, illius depositione in loco legitime deputato fidelibus defunctis condendis.