UK cemetery: Christian graves must face Mecca

[Mailman]

I think the council probably looked at it from this point of view, which religion is more likely to cut your head off if you offend them?

Mailman

[Ardesco]

Lets have some Catholic extremeists running about blowing up muslims for a while then. thats should get the government going....

(although i'm thinking the catholic terrorsits will probably be smart enough to be well out of the way when the bombs go off....

[John Galt]

"Consider the poor Catholic who cannot even be buried whatever the direction - it is illegal to bury Catholics in consecrated ground in the UK - hence no Catholic church has a graveyard!"

Are you sure I know that suicides cannot be buried in consecrated ground under the catholic religion but that does seem somewhat unlikely

[xoggoth]

Consider the poor Catholic who cannot even be buried whatever the direction - it is illegal to bury Catholics in consecrated ground in the UK - hence no Catholic church has a graveyard!

Raised as a Catholic Z and first time I ever realised that. Suppose I was never old enough then to think much about being buried.

[Ardesco]

Consider the poor Catholic who cannot even be buried whatever the direction - it is illegal to bury Catholics in consecrated ground in the UK - hence no Catholic church has a graveyard!

Don't you mean ground consecrated by the CofE? Surely the catholic churches can consecrate the ground around thier churches themselves and then bury people as they see fit.

[expat]

it is illegal to bury Catholics in consecrated ground in the UK - hence no Catholic church has a graveyard!

"consecrated ground"? Would that be ground consecrated according to the rites of the Church of England?