A Topic of Moral Theology

The Prohibition of Cremating Corpses

The Prohibition of Cremating Corpses, as treated in Noldin (Book Fourth. On the Support of Pastors and Cremation of Corpses).

In the index as Cremation of corpses · Cremation · Ecclesiastical burial

In the manuals

Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. II, Part Third. On the Precept…, Book Fourth. On the Suppor…, Question Second. On the Prohibition of Cremating Corpses, nn. 716 & 717 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

The Casuist: A Collection of Cases in Moral and Pastoral Theology

Vol. II, Case VII: Cremation, nn. ¶1–¶15 (15 passages)

Vol. IV, Case LXXXVII: Cremation, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4 & ¶5 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treated under the broader heading The Commandments of the Church — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion · Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion (4th ed., 1905) · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Tanquerey · Koch–Preuss · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)