text: So, it is OK for the Church to carve up and (in my opinion) desecrate the bodies of people who might be or become saints, but I can't have my ashes scattered at sea?  I can't have my ashes divided and put in lockets or such but saints can have parts of them in reliquaries around the world and Canon 1237 (2) REQUIRES relics to be placed in an alter.
  So, who is this directive aimed at? I can't be kept over the heart of a loved one but the actual heart of St. Padre Pio was ripped out and is paraded all over the world.