Buying A Relic By Accident

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I recently placed a bid on a 1st class relic, and after placing the bid, realized that it may not be ethical in the church to receive it. If I am not outbid in the remaining two hours, and the relic comes in and it is truly authentic, I will turn it over to my bishop immediately. If I receive it and it is questionable beyond a reasonable doubt, I will return it for a refund. Is there anything else I should know or do?
 
I am pretty certain if you are on eBay and this is a relic of human remains that’s illegal on their site.

Report the buyer immediately.
 
I forgot to mention, I already did that, I don’t know how fast ebay will react.
 
It looks like he has a foothold in ebay, they may not take any action because of his history.
 
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It looks like he has a foothold in ebay, they may not take any action because of his history.
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You should remove the link. It is not allowed.

Just flag it. They WILL take action. It is illegal in the US to buy and sell body parts, and that includes relics. It dosn’t matter if there is a million positive starts. They aren’t going to mess with illegal.
 
I just did a quick ebay search and there seems to be plenty of them on there.

I wonder how they got into the sellers’ hands. So horrible.

I wonder if some who are buying these are working for the “other” side.
 
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I did the same yesterday and was surprised too.
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I wonder if some who are buying these are working for the “other” side.
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More than likely. It seems that simony is rife. Very sad…
 
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I would think it over and perhaps but it and turn it over to my parish priest.
Otherwise someone could buy it who could treat it as a joke or sacrilegiously.
Or if ebay takes it off its site the person might throw it out and it would end in a pit, 
    a waste site.
 
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e-Bay has the ethical duty to remove relics that are human remains. We cannot buy things against ethical and legal prohibitions just to “save” them.

This simply puts a market in play for “rescuing” prohibited items.
 
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