Episode 47: Are Catholic Relics Illegal?

Death, et seq. by Tanya D. Marsh

May 11, 202600:43:31Science & Medicine

Alex Gracia, a third-year student at Wake Forest Law School, discusses the intersection between the Catholic practice of creating relics and keeping them in churches and the laws in the United States that forbid "abuse o...

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