{"id":115772,"date":"2016-08-12T08:51:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T12:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aleteia.org\/?post_type=post&p=115772"},"modified":"2016-08-12T08:51:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T12:51:25","slug":"relics-for-sale-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2016\/08\/relics-for-sale-on-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"Relics for sale on eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

There\u2019s a lot wrong with this. A lot.<\/p>\n

Details from Catholic News Agency:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Ryan Scheel was shopping for a rosary on eBay when one listing caught him off guard.<\/p>\n

A first class relic of the bone of a saint, still in its wax-sealed reliquary, was listed for sale \u2013 to the tune of $3,600.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe listing was crass enough to even describe the relic as \u2018ex ossibus,\u2019 a Latin term meaning \u2018from the bones,\u2019\u201d Scheel told CNA e-mail comments.<\/p>\n

He decided to further search the online auction site, and found \u201cpages and pages\u201d of other first class relics for sale, violating eBay\u2019s own policy that prohibits the sale of human body parts, other than human scalp hair.<\/p>\n

Scheel, who is also the founder and editor of the Catholic resource site uCatholic, said he tried to use eBay\u2019s \u201cReport Item\u201d feature in order to alert the site of the first class relics, but he said the closest option given from the available drop-down list states: \u201cThe item in this listing is an artifact, fossil, or relic taken from federal or state public land or Native American land or battlefield.\u201d<\/p>\n

Catholic News Agency reached out to eBay for comment on this issue, but did not receive a response by press time.<\/p>\n

The listing of first class relics \u201cis incredibly insensitive to the Catholic faith in way I doubt would be tolerated for other religions,\u201d Scheel said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut also\u2026common decency should tell eBay that profiting off of the sale of body parts is ghastly and unethical, no matter who the remains belonged to in life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And there\u2019s this:<\/p>\n

Code of Canon Law 1190<\/strong><\/a> states that it is \u201cabsolutely forbidden to sell sacred relics,\u201d whether or not they are human remains.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read it all.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a lot wrong with this. A lot. Details from Catholic News Agency:\u00a0 Ryan Scheel was shopping for a rosary on eBay when one listing caught him off guard. A first class relic of the bone of a saint, still in its wax-sealed reliquary, was listed for sale \u2013 to the tune of $3,600. \u201cThe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":115773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nRelics for sale on eBay<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There's a lot wrong with this. A lot. 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