Letter: When a church has no heart

My family also had a disturbing incident with a church. When my mother died in Tucson, we had her cremated at her request and flew with her cremains to her home town in Wisconsin for the funeral. She had sent my sister and I to 13 years of parochial schools, at her own expense and now wished to be remembered at the church she had supported and attended for over 65 years. The priest refused to let us bring her cremains into the church and she had to stay outside, at the curb, in the hearse because the church forbid cremation.

A few years later, I opened the Star to a front page picture of a church of the same denomination, having a funeral service for a bishop. His cremains were prominently sitting on the altar! I now have a bumper sticker that reads "Freedom from Religion, per the U.S. Constitution."

Jacque Ramsey

Oro Valley

Disclaimer: As submitted to the Arizona Daily Star.