Vatican bans hoarding or scattering of ashes

According to this article from NPR, the Pope says bury those ashes! Scattering them to the four winds or the seven seas is now verboten for the cremated Catholic, as is keeping them in an urn on your mantel or making them into sparkly baubles. Cemetery managers and funeral home owners are surely rejoicing as they consider the graying population of Catholics now required to purchase additional funereal accessories, for example, cremation vaults, which can range from $90 well into the hundreds or thousands.Rest assured, the Vatican states cremation doesn't interfere with the new body you will receive upon entering the afterlife.