A parish is in uproar after a crematorium’s cross was taken down and stuffed in a cupboard to avoid offending non-religious visitors.
Around 40 per cent of funeral services held the crematorium are non-Christian so it was decided that the cross should be kept in a storage cupboard rather than behind the alter.
It will be brought out of the cupboard and put up on the wall for services at Accrington Crematorium in Burnley, Lancashire, only when requested.
Given that cremation is a decidedly pagan practice, I am not sure what the basis is for complaint.
Nice Freudian slip on the part of the editor. This does”alter” things but the word in “altar”.