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Vatican Weekend for August 13, 2016 begins with a look at what Pope Francis had to say at the General Audience: open the doors of our hearts and rise up to God’s compassion this Jubilee Year of Mercy. Then, Fr. Peter Stravinskas takes us to the Holy Land to reflect on Our Lady’s Assumption into Heaven. The programme concludes with a focus segment on another holy woman of the Church: Edith Stein or Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. In an interview with Veronica Scarisbrick, Discalced Carmelite Father Ulrich Dobhan sheds light on this remarkable saint from wartime Germany…Listen to this programme presented and produced by Tracey McClure:
Vatican Weekend for August 13, 2016 begins with a look at what Pope Francis had to say at the General Audience: open the doors of our hearts and rise up to God’s compassion this Jubilee Year of Mercy. Then, Fr. Peter Stravinskas takes us to the Holy Land to reflect on Our Lady’s Assumption into Heaven. The programme concludes with a focus segment on another holy woman of the Church: Edith Stein or Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. In an interview with Veronica Scarisbrick, Discalced Carmelite Father Ulrich Dobhan sheds light on this remarkable saint from wartime Germany…
Listen to this programme presented and produced by Tracey McClure:
Vatican Weekend for August 14, 2016 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday Gospel presented by Jill Bevilacqua for the series 'There's More in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye'. The programme ends with part II of our tour of the museum beneath the Rome Basilica of Saint Major with our guide, Vatican Museums curator, Professor Arnold Nesselrath.Listen to the programme presented and produced by Tracey McClure:
Vatican Weekend for August 14, 2016 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday Gospel presented by Jill Bevilacqua for the series 'There's More in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye'. The programme ends with part II of our tour of the museum beneath the Rome Basilica of Saint Major with our guide, Vatican Museums curator, Professor Arnold Nesselrath.
Listen to the programme presented and produced by Tracey McClure:
(Vatican Radio) In this week's edition of There's More in the Sunday Gospel Than Meets the Eye, Jill Bevilacqua and Seàn-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections for the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time.Listen: GOSPEL LK 12:49 -53Jesus said to his disciples:“I have come to set the earth on fire,and how I wish it were already blazing!There is a baptism with which I must be baptized,and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth?No, I tell you, but rather division.From now on a household of five will be divided,three against two and two against three;a father will be divided against his sonand a son against his father,a mother against her daughterand a daughter against her mother,a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-lawand a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
(Vatican Radio) In this week's edition of There's More in the Sunday Gospel Than Meets the Eye, Jill Bevilacqua and Seàn-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections for the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Listen:
GOSPEL LK 12:49 -53
Jesus said to his disciples:
“I have come to set the earth on fire,
and how I wish it were already blazing!
There is a baptism with which I must be baptized,
and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!
Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth?
No, I tell you, but rather division.
From now on a household of five will be divided,
three against two and two against three;
a father will be divided against his son
and a son against his father,
a mother against her daughter
and a daughter against her mother,
a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
San Jose, Calif., Aug 12, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- 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 – to the tune of $3,600.“The listing was crass enough to even describe the relic as 'ex ossibus,' a Latin term meaning 'from the bones,'” Scheel told CNA e-mail comments.He decided to further search the online auction site, and found “pages and pages” of other first class relics for sale, violating eBay’s own policy that prohibits the sale of human body parts, other than human scalp hair.Scheel, who is also the founder and editor of the Catholic resource site uCatholic, said he tried to use eBay’s “Report Item” 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: “The item in this li...
San Jose, Calif., Aug 12, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- 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 – to the tune of $3,600.
“The listing was crass enough to even describe the relic as 'ex ossibus,' a Latin term meaning 'from the bones,'” Scheel told CNA e-mail comments.
He decided to further search the online auction site, and found “pages and pages” of other first class relics for sale, violating eBay’s own policy that prohibits the sale of human body parts, other than human scalp hair.
Scheel, who is also the founder and editor of the Catholic resource site uCatholic, said he tried to use eBay’s “Report Item” 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: “The item in this listing is an artifact, fossil, or relic taken from federal or state public land or Native American land or battlefield.”
Catholic News Agency reached out to eBay for comment on this issue, but did not receive a response by press time.
The listing of first class relics “is incredibly insensitive to the Catholic faith in way I doubt would be tolerated for other religions,” Scheel said.
“But also...common 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.”
That's why Scheel decided to launch a petition calling for eBay to remove the listings of the first class relics. He hopes to obtain signatures from at least 25,000 Catholics in order to alert the site of the illicit sales.
“The sale of Catholic Relics is not only a great and terrible offense against the Catholic faith, it is also explicitly against your very own corporate policy concerning the sale of human body parts and remains,” the petition reads.
“As a Catholic, we ask that you remove all current listings of Catholic relics containing the mortal remains of the Saints and actively monitor and prohibit any future listings,” it continues.
Scheel told CNA that it appears that the people listing the relics seem to somehow be bypassing the ban on the sale of human body parts, but on eBay’s part, “the issue here seems like one of enforcement, and hopefully not ill-will or religious insensitivity.”
The policies of eBay technically allow for the sale of second and third class relics, or first class relics of objects such as the cross or the shroud of Turin.
However, Schell said “eBay should also forbid this out of common respect for the Catholic Faith.”
Code of Canon Law 1190 states that it is “absolutely forbidden to sell sacred relics,” whether or not they are human remains.
Some have argued that what is for sale is the reliquary itself, and not the relic.
However, in the case of many of the first class relics for sale on eBay – some of which are going for thousands of dollars - that seems to not be the case, said JD Flynn, a canon lawyer and director of communications for the Diocese of Lincoln, Neb.
“Here’s what needs to be considered: is the reliquary being sold for a price comparable to that of similar objects which do not contain relics? If a silver box containing Mother Teresa's eyelashes costs $1,000, and a silver box with no eyelashes costs $100, it’s very difficult to argue that the person is not engaging in the sacrilege of simony,” Flynn told CNA.
Simony is a sacrilegious practice that consists in buying and selling what is spiritual (relics) in return for what is temporal (money).
In the case of the eBay relics, Flynn said, it may be permissible for Catholics to buy the listed relics in order to protect them from further harm or desecration.
“For example, it would be hard to justify getting into a bidding war with other devout Catholics for a relic, but it would be easy to understand getting into a bidding war for a relic with the owners of some hipster bar that wants relics for decorations,” Flynn said.
“But in such a situation, the merchant is obviously engaged in simony.”
The full petition can be found at: http://http://ucatholic.com/ebay
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