Catholic ministries that inter abandoned cremated remains are about ‘honoring the dead’

Catholic ministries that inter abandoned cremated remains are about ‘honoring the dead’

NEW ORLEANS (OSV News) — A funeral urn filled with ashes was found abandoned in 2022 on a park bench in Tennessee, more than 1,000 miles east of Minneapolis. As Jamie Moloney, director of pastoral outreach for the Catholic Cemeteries of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, recalls the family odyssey her staff helped resolve, she realizes the spiritual and emotional significance of the archdiocese’s “Bringing Them Home” initiative that pr…