{"id":5093,"date":"2024-06-13T11:02:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T11:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/learn\/what-is-green-burial-and-does-the-catholic-church-allow-it\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T19:57:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T19:57:21","slug":"what-is-green-burial-and-does-the-catholic-church-allow-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/what-is-green-burial-and-does-the-catholic-church-allow-it\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00bfQu\u00e9 es el \u00abentierro ecol\u00f3gico\u00bb y lo permite la Iglesia Cat\u00f3lica?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>[ad_1] Source null \/ Credit: Sarah Marchant\/Shutterstock In an era of increasing environmental consciousness, the practice of &quot;green burials\u201d is growing in popularity \u2014 including at numerous Catholic cemeteries throughout the United States.&nbsp;The funeral and burial economies in the United States \u2014 commonly grouped together as the &quot;death care industry\u201d \u2014 are both financially lucrative and highly resource-intensive. The National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) says on its website that the death care industry as a whole generated about $16 billion\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe Now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? 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The National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) says on its website that the death care industry as a whole generated about $16 billion\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-5093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-news"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":97306,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/u-s-bishops-tighten-funeral-policies-after-growth-of-irregular-practices\/","url_meta":{"origin":5093,"position":0},"title":"U.S. bishops tighten funeral policies after growth of \u2018irregular practices\u2019","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"julio 26, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Several U.S. bishops in recent months have tightened diocesan funeral policies, emphasizing stricter adherence to the Order of Christian Funerals (OCF) amid evolving popular practices at funerals that depart from Church norms and concern visitations, eulogies, and cremated remains, among others.\u2018Liturgical anomalies\u2019In a video message and accompanying letter, Bishop Thomas Paprocki\u2019s new rules for the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois, which went into effect on July 1, address what he described as \u201cirregular practices\u201d and \u201cliturgical anomalies.\u201dPaprocki explained that his goal\u2026","rel":"","context":"En \u00abChristian News\u00bb","block_context":{"text":"Christian News","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/category\/christian-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":69691,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/burials-for-little-ones-how-a-new-orleans-ministry-helps-families-grieve\/","url_meta":{"origin":5093,"position":1},"title":"Burials for little ones: How a New Orleans ministry helps families grieve","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"noviembre 23, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"A family grieves their lost baby at a funeral at the crypt at St. Patrick\u2019s Cemetery in New Orleans. 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