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Date Posted: 06:23:52 08/31/07 Fri
Author: catie
Author Host/IP: h69.42.91.75.ip.alltel.net / 75.91.42.69
Subject: Joan
In reply to: Joan 's message, "Re: Do you believe that committing suicide is a sin ?" on 14:18:53 08/30/07 Thu

When a church owns a cemetery, in most protestant churches, it isn't up to a minister to decide who can or can't be buried there, but the people who own it. Of course, they literally own it because the congregation purchased it.

I realize things are done differently in the Catholic church and I guess then that a catholic congregation member who had loved ones buried in that cemetery knew ahead of time that a non-catholic would not be buried there. I suppse they came to terms with that when they agreed to be bured there themselves. Is there something considered "holy" about that cemetery that keeps non Catholics from being buried there? If so, what are the ramifications of being buried/not being buried in that cemetery?

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