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• DEBUNKING by John H. ...
• Microscopist Walter McCrone is dead at 86, and Boston milkman Paul Revere at 85. ...
• Revere was one of two riders sent from Boston to warn John Adams and John Hancock that the British were on the way. ...
• However, McCrone raised hackles when he debunked the Shroud of Turin and Yale University's Vinland Map. ...
• The Shroud first appeared in 1356. ... In fact, not long after it was found, Pope Clement VII said it was just a drawing. ... And, until small pieces of the Shroud were carefully cleaned and carbon-dated in 1987, debunking was based on chemical results. ...
• And so, while people fight over particulars, we know perfectly well that Paul Revere rode to Lexington, and the Vikings sailed to Greenland. ... He called the Shroud of Turin a "fantastic work of art. ...
• I'm John Lienhard, at the University of Houston, where we're interested in the way inventive minds work.
• , Paul Revere, 85, Celebrator Of His Ancestor's Famous Ride. ...
• For more on the history of Paul Revere's Ride, see: http://www. ... org/paul. ...
• (lines and image from "Paul Revere's Ride,.

• The Shroud of Turin.
• The Shroud of Turin is reputedly Christ's burial cloth. ...
• The Shroud of Turin, as seen by the naked eye, is a negative image of a man with his hands folded. ... The shroud bears the image of a man with wounds similar to those suffered by Jesus. The shroud is wrapped in red silk and kept in a silver chest in the Chapel of the Holy Shroud in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin, Italy since 1578. ...
• The shroud is unquestionably old. ... The results said the shroud dated back to 1260-1390, and thus is much too new to be Jesus' burial linen. ...
• If the marks we perceive were caused by human body, it is clear that the body (supine) was laid lengthwise along one half of the shroud while the other half was doubled back over the head to cover the whole front of the body from the face to the feet. The arrangement is well illustrated in the miniature of Giulio Clovio, which also gives a good representation of what was seen upon the shroud about the year 1540. ...
• The cloth now at Turin can be clearly traced back to the Lirey in the Diocese of Troyes, where we first hear of it about the year 1360. ... Since 1578 it has remained at Turin where it is now only exposed for veneration at long intervals. ...
• That the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin is taken for granted, in various pronouncements of the Holy See cannot be disputed. An Office and Mass "de Sancta Sindone" was formerly approved by Julius II in the Bull "Romanus Pontifex" of 25 April, 1506, in the course of which the Pope speaks of "that most famous Shroud (proeclarissima sindone) in which our Savior was wrapped when he lay in the tomb and which is now honorably and devoutly preserved in a silver casket. ...
• Composed by his predecessor, Sixtus IV, in which Sixtus states that in the Shroud "men may look upon the true blood and portrait of Jesus Christ himself. ... , also claimed to be the authentic linen sindon provided by Joseph of Arimathea, but until the close of the last century no great attack was made upon the genuineness of the Turin relic. ...

• Open Letter to John Dominic Crossan.
•  It is illustrative, however, of the problem with the Shroud. ... Of course, if the Shroud is authentic, then there is little argument left about whether or not Jesus was buried.
• As I said at the beginning of this letter, there has been a paucity of fact-embracing skepticism on the Shroud. ...
• The Shroud is important because it challenges worldview thinking. ... And as Pope John Paul II states — a man keenly aware of intellectual dilemma — the Shroud of Turin “challenges our intelligence. ...
• It may turn out that the Shroud is a medieval relic-forgery, as you suppose. It may be that the Shroud is authentic and that a perfectly natural explanation for the images eludes us for now. Absent such explanations, we may wonder: did something happen in the tomb? Did something happen within that linen Shroud? Did something happen that was so powerful that an image was translated to the cloth? .
• Just to be sure, however, “one of the soldiers pierced his side with a lance, and at once blood and water flowed out” – witnessed, writes John, “by the one who saw it,” the Beloved Disciple. This blood and water, the last drops of Jesus’ wracked body, seem to have flowed copiously, if we accept the visual testimony of that strange Fifth Gospel, the Shroud, which may have been a treasure of the church of the Beloved Disciple, the same church that treasured the evolving Fourth Gospel .
• To be convinced, skeptical, or merely intrigued are all fair responses to becoming well informed about the Shroud of Turin. ...
• For instance, I have not discussed the discoveries of mites on the Shroud which are indigenous to the Middle East. Nor have I discussed mineral encrusted pollen spores found on the back of the Shroud, which were likely formed by the damp cools surfaces of limestone caves or tombs. I have not discussed the discovery of a sliver of oak wood in the region of the back of the head on the Shroud. ...
• Other then recounting the legend of Abgar and Thaddeus Jude, I have not covered the subject of plausible possibilities for how the Shroud came to be in Edessa. ...

• Elvis Would Have Turned Into Pope John XXIII.
• Looking at the two pictures below we can well see the similarities and if Elvis would have continued his twinkle binging spiral his face might well have been as round as Blessed John XXIII.
• This is the official story, but is it true? What if his twin brother had lived and for some reason was hidden from public? What if he had a premature aging disease such as Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) which causes the person afflicted to age at a more rapid rate? Furthermore what if Jessie Garon had replaced Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, the future Pope John XXIII, at some time and place? Now you might think this is wild X-Files type conjecture, but we will show you some so-called coincidences and photographic evidence that this is in fact what happened. ...
• Here is Pope John XXIII wearing the papal crown. ...
• In the 1300s there was an anti-Pope who called himself John XXIII, so why was this name selected? Could the number 23 be symbolic for something? That is exactly the case, Elvis's 23rd movie was Double Trouble. In hindsight this is pointing us to the fact that his brother was having troubles doubling as the pope. Elvis's 23rd hit song was "Return to Sender", which when played backwards at half speed you can barely hear "John XXIII is dead. ...
• Elvis had never been to Europe before but coincidentally later in that same month John XXIII was elected pope. Was he there to encourage his brother and to help jockey him into position as the future pope? Elvis had his picture taking with many world famous personages including President Nixon, but there is not one picture of Elvis with the Pope. ...
• Pope John XXIII in 1959 rejected the request of a scientific panel to study the Shroud of Turin. Elvis when found dead had a book on the Shroud of Turin.
• John XXII and Elvis both had the identical taste in clothes. ...
• There you have it Blessed John XXIII was secretly wearing BLUE SUEDE SHOES at this ceremony!!!.
• On 3 September 2000, John Paul II beatified "good pope John". ...

• Main Menu | Our company | our works | Services|History of stained glass | fused glass| Glass Mosaics | News | Links| Contact us Turin's Shroud - stained glass window in Komorow church .
• As we know, it is the first time that Turin's Shroud motif is presented in stained glass technique. ...
• He designed altars for masses said by Pope John Paul II during his pilgrimages to Poland. ...

• IN FRONT OF THE SHROUD: NEITHER ICONOCLASTS NOR FUNDAMENTALISTS by Orazio PETROSILLO Journalist © 1996 All rights reserved Collegamento pro Sindone - September/October 1996 Issue Cover of the rare "Missa Sacrae Sindonis" (1692) from the collection of Emanuela Marinelli.
• To illustrate the position of the Church about the Holy Shroud of Turin, I consider necessary some preliminary statements. The first one is this: if the Turin Shroud is an archaeological object, a sheet with an image and some blood stains, it is therefore necessary to realize a rigorous analysis of the object. Science must autonomly, and obviously in a multidisciplinary context, provide the evidence for the authenticity or not of the Shroud. ...
• When one speaks about the Shroud authenticity, it is necessary to come to an understanding and to distinguish two authenticity levels. ... Also at the hypothesis that it is medieval, the Shroud would always remain an unicum. We don't have in the world any cloth with vaguely similar characteristics to those that are observed on the Turin relic. ...
• If for a completely unlikely hypothesis it is medieval, the Shroud would always remain authentic in itself and not a forgery. ... But if science shows that that sheet is dated back to the first century, the Shroud and evangelical data convergence is so high that there is an astronomic probability level that that Man is Jesus of Nazaret. ...
• Faith doesn't enter therefore into the verification course of the Shroud authenticity. Not only, but it must be clear that the faith in Jesus Christ doesn't depend at all on the Turin cloth authenticity. ... The present pontifical custodian of the relic, Cardinal Giovanni Saldarini, in a dossier given to Italian bishops on May 13, 1996 has clarly repeated that "faith is not founded upon the Shroud authenticity and never it has been mentioned like an evidence of Christianity truth. ...
• However, let me say that, if the Shroud is authentic, as I am absolutely convinced and as Pius XI and Paul VI were, and very convinced is John Paul II, then this relic is not irrelevant for my faith. ...
• Towards the Shroud, it should be avoided the double excess of whoever wants to devalue it and of whoever wants to overestimate it. We don't need either iconoclasts or fundamentalists of the Shroud. ...
• We use it here in the generic sense of image, surely not to mean a sacred painting of Oriental kind, because it is scientifically certain that the Shroud image is not a painting.

• THE SHROUD OF TURIN.
• What do people believe the shroud to be?.
• History of the shroud.
• What do people believe the shroud to be?.
• There are about forty shrouds which have been alleged to be the true shroud of Jesus. 1 Beliefs about the Shroud of Turin are seriously divided. ...
• Relic: It may be the actual burial shroud of Yeshua of Nazareth (Jesus Christ). This was described in Mark 15:46, Matthew 27:59, Luke 23:53, and John 19:40 as a clean linen cloth (or cloths) or shroud. The word translated as "shroud" in English is pronounced "sindón" in Greek or "sindone" in Italian. ...
• Historical artifact: It may be the burial shroud of another crucified man from the first few centuries CE. ...
• Icon: It may be a work of art -- a religious icon which was painted, perhaps in the 14th century, as a legitimate attempt to portray what Jesus' shroud may have looked like. If this is the actual source of the shroud, then it is likely to have been painted shortly before 1353 CE. That is when the shroud is definitely known to have been in existence. ...
• Fraud: It may be a pious counterfeit, also painted sometime before 1353 CE -- a forgery intended to fool Christians into believing that they are looking at the actual burial shroud of Jesus. ...
• does it date from the time of Jesus' execution or from approximately the time when the existence of the shroud was first definitely known.
• It is kept at the Roman Catholic Turin Cathedral in Italy where it is displayed on rare intervals. Millions of believers come to Turin when it is on exhibit.

• Year 2000 Shroud .
• On June 3 the Vatican announced the dates for the Shroud exposition in the year 2000, as part of the celebrations of the Jubilee Year. ...
• According to the communiqué: ‘After the apostolic visit of His Holiness John Paul II to Turin, Cardinal Giovanni Saldarini, Pontifical Custodian of the Shroud, has set the dates for the next exposition, which will be held in Turin’s Cathedral. Like the (recent) exposition, the one planned for the year 2000 will be part of the path of the Great Jubilee proclaimed by John Paul II for the millennium of the Redemption, and will have a clearly ecclesial nature, according to the orientations indicated on numerous occasions by the Holy Father. ...
• Since this communiqué positively stipulates the exposition to be in Turin’s Cathedral, it seems to contradict some rumours that have been circulating that the year 2000 Shroud exposition could be held in Rome. ...   It will therefore be interesting to see who is appointed for his successor, and what fresh policies he may bring relating to the Shroud .
• Pope John Paul II visits Turin.
• On May 24 of this year, the day after his becoming this century’s longest-serving pope, Pope John Paul II visited Turin.   A major highlight of this was his visiting the Shroud, this being still on public display in Turin Cathedral at this time. ...
• After prayers he then listened to a reading from John 30: 3-8 describing Peter and John’s original discovery of Jesus’ burial linens in the empty tomb. The Pope then gave his longest-known address on the Shroud, in Italian. ...
• With my gaze turned to the Shroud, I would like to extend a cordial greeting to. ... the pilgrims who have come from every part of the world at the time of this public Exposition Before the Shroud, the intense and agonising image of an unspeakable torment, I wish to thank the Lord for this unique gift . ...
• The Shroud is a challenge to our intelligence. ... The mysterious fascination of the Shroud forces questions to be raised about the sacred linen and the historical life of Jesus. ... The Church urges that the Shroud be studied without pre-established positions that take for granted results that are not such; she invites them to act with interior freedom and attentive respect for both scientific methodology and the sensibilities of believers. ...

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• com Body of evidence shows Shroud of Turin is a forgery Amherst, NY (August 16, 2000)--The Shroud of Turin was unveiled for a rare two-month public viewing on Saturday, August 12, in Turin, Italy. ... " He and other caretakers of the shroud say they are open to a scientific reexamination of the cloth. But will any one test settle the dispute over the shroud's history? Most researchers are eager to test hypotheses that focus on one narrow aspect of the shroud. ... Scientists insist that the 1988 radiocarbon dating--performed at three independent labs--demonstrates once and for all that the shroud is a 14th century forgery. ... He has employed this method in his research and is convinced that the shroud is indeed a medieval forgery. Nickell is author of Inquest on the Shroud of Turin (Prometheus 1998)-a study that relies on evidence from the Catholic church's own documents and the gospel account of St. John, in addition to the "hard" scientific evidence from chemical, microscopic and radiocarbon analyses. ... "The preponderance of evidence" says Nickell "leads to the conclusion that the shroud is the work of a medieval artisan. " The records of the Turin shroud start abruptly in the 14th century A. ... The earliest document is a bishop's report to Pope Clement VII, dated 1389. ... In the late 1970s, forensic microanalyst Walter McCrone, an expert in examining the authenticity of documents and paintings, identified the "blood" of the shroud as red ocher and vermilion tempera paint, and concluded that the entire image was painted.

• Italian scientists find image on back of Turin shroud.
• John Paul becomes third-longest-serving pope.
• Palace plays anthem, Pope and Sharon condemn blasts.
• John Paul becomes third-longest-serving pope .
• John Paul II, who celebrated his 25th anniversary as Pope in October, yesterday became the third-longest-serving pontiff in the history of the Roman Catholic church. ...
• The Vatican lists St Peter, the first pope, as serving from AD 30 to 64 or 67. ... Third - until yesterday - was Pope Leo XIII, who served until July 20 1903. ...
• John Paul's longevity seems even more remarkable in light of the ailments, including Parkinson's disease and hip and knee problems, that led some to suggest he might consider stepping down, a move the pontiff has made clear he has no intention of doing. ...
• As the most travelled pontiff in history the Pope has made 102 foreign trips. ...

• Author: Pope John Paul II.
• Author: Pope John Paul II.
• Here is the story of the little boy who grew up to become Pope John Paul II.
• This one-of-a-kind biography leads young readers to identity with the adventures and challenges that have molded Pope John Paul II into a missionary .
• *Highlights the major events of Pope's life.
• *One of the first biographies on the Pope for younger childern.
• John Paul II .
• A rare glimpse into John Paul's life and vision. The author describes John Paul's pontificate from a unique perspective as a jurnalist who has traveled extensively on papal pilgrimages. Personal stories or comments the Pope has made" in-flight" highlight the tex and illustrate his humor and spontaneity. * Highly readable text * Two 16-page section of photographs* A timeline of significant events in the Pope's life. ...
• Maximilian was canonized by Pope John Paul II, .
• Pope John Paul II  A tribute.
• When a Pope Asks Forgiveness   Examines the texts of John Paul's mea culpa addresses publicly admitting Church culpability on topics ranging from the Inquisition to the recent civil strife in Rwanda. ...
• Portrait of John Paul II.
• has traveled widely with Pope John II .

• Fellow speakers were Catholic priests John Bertolucci, John Randall, and Michael Scanlon; as well as Modernist Robert Schuller; and a host of radical Charismatics, including Jim Bakker of the PTL, Pat Robertson of the 700 Club, and Demos Shakarian of the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International .
• In 1983, Gary Habermas, a professor at Falwell's school, co-authored a book which, according to an advertisement in Charisma magazine, reached an amazing conclusion: "The Shroud of Turin which the Catholic church claims to be Christ's burial shroud is almost certainly authentic. ...
• There are many objective reasons for rejecting the Shroud of Turin. For one, the image on the Shroud depicts alonghaired man. ...
• " Falwell has spoken highly of the Pope on several occasions. In his January 1985 Morality Majority Report, Falwell called the pope and Billy Graham great moral and religious leaders. In 1988, Falwell mailed to bookstores a letter advertising a film about John Paul II. These are the amazing statements made by Falwell about this Catholic Pope: .
• "Dear Christian Bookstore Owner: Pope John Paul II will never become a Baptist, and it is for sure that I will never convert to Roman Catholicism. ...
• However, I have stated often that I believe this Pope is a man of unique character and courage. ... Evans has so perfectly captured the innermost person and principles of John Paul II. ... While the Pope and I have broad doctrinal and theological differences, this man's commitment to the dignity of human life and his strong opposition to tyranny and bigotry provide a shining light for the people of our generation who need such enforcement. ...
• Why would a Baptist leader promote a video by a religious leader who preaches a false gospel and thereby leads multitudes to eternal Hell? Does Falwell not fear that someone reading his recommendation of the Pope might be encouraged to listen to him and thereby be deceived into following Catholicism? The Bible says we are not even to bid "God speed" to those who deny the doctrine of Christ (2 John 8-11), because those who assist falseteachers become partakers of their evil deeds. In praise the Pope and recommending his video, Falwell is doing much more than bidding him "God speed. ...
• ' He then lectured them on Pope John XXIII's renewal of the gospel call and the voice of Catholic bishops in the U. ...
• John Borek Jr. ... It has now been verified that John Borek was and may still be identified with Rome, and when given an opportunity to testify of a clear-cut conversion he did not do so. ...

• The Shroud of Turin is either the real thing - of and by a rare exception to laws of nature - or it's the world's single most amazing unexplainable hoax. ...
• Shroud of Turin.
• SHROUD STORY HOME PAGE.
• In the case of the Shroud, three independent laboratories used a recently developed Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) method for measuring the date. ... The single cutting was taken from the upper left corner of the Shroud, which was probably the most contaminated part of the entire Shroud. ...
• The Shroud over the centuries has been exposed to any number of contaminants including burning incense, wax from candles, paint flecks from frescoed ceilings, dirt on peoples hands, wrapping cloths, ordinary dust, and modern airborne contaminants from industrial Turin. In 1532, a fire in the cathedral in Chambery, France damaged parts of the Shroud - burn marks and repairs that are clearly visible today. The fire was hot enough to melt the Shroud's silver casket. ...
• Alan Adler, a physical chemist at Western Connecticut State University, demonstrated that the chemical composition of fibers in the sample area were markedly different from those of other parts of the Shroud. ...
• More recently, in a report, "Evidence for the Skewing of the C-14 Dating of the Shroud of Turin due to Repairs," presented by Joe Marino and Sue Benford to the Orvieto Congress in August 2000, Benford and Marino explained their examination of the Shroud by notable textile experts. ... The following is quoted from an article in the November 2000 issue of the British Society for the Turin Shroud newsletter:" .
• This type of detail to repairs would be consistent with the wealth and devotion of the Savoy family, who owned the Shroud at the time. ...
• In 1993, Leoncio Garza-Valdez, a collector of ancient art objects, and Professor Stephen Mattingly, head of Microbiology at the University of Texas in San Antonio, discovered a significant, partially living fungi and bacterial coating on some Shroud fibers taken from the same sample cut for the carbon-14 testing. ...
• Dozens of critical detailed technical reports have been written about the carbon-14 testing of the Shroud. ...
• With the Shroud of Turin there is none. ...
• But the detail of the coins, seen in some photographs of the Shroud, is too small to be captured accurately with the orthochromatic film that was used. ...

• POPE RENEWS PLEA FOR JERUSALEM. ...
• ARAFAT APPEALS TO JOHN PAUL II, PALESTINIAN SAYS. ...
• NEXT EXPOSITION OF THE HOLY SHROUD TO BE IN YEAR 2025. ...
• "As a conclusion, the participants, among them scientists from different confessions and even some agnostics, asked the Holy See to declare the Shroud of Turin an authentic relic of the Lord Jesus. ...
• John Paul II confirmed the absolute position of the Catholic Church on marriage, emphasizing that "no form of relation between persons can be considered equal to the natural relation between a man and a woman, who through their love give life to children. ...
• The Vatican representative recalled that when Pope John Paul II visited the Dheisheh refugee camp, near Bethlehem, during his March visit to the Holy Land, he had lamented the "degrading conditions" in which Palestinian refugees live. ...
• That collection, in turn, was published between 1965 and 1981, by a team of four Jesuit scholars commissioned by Pope Paul VI. ...
• com) -- Pope John Paul II might attend a soccer game at Rome's Olympic Stadium as part of the observance of the Jubilee for athletes on October 29. ... And Pope John Paul, an avid amateur soccer player in his youth, remains an interested fan.
• com) - International debt relief was a key theme when Pope John Paul II announced that 2000 would be a Jubilee Year, and various religious and international organizations picked up the idea. ...
• NEXT EXPOSITION OF THE HOLY SHROUD TO BE IN YEAR 2025 Rome, Oct 25 (NE): A million people have visited the Holy Shroud of Turin during the 72 days of the present Holy Year's exposition. ... Archbishop Severino Poletto of Turin, Pontifical custodian of the Shroud, stated during a recent press conference that the next exposition will take place "probably in 2025, date of the following Holy Year, unless exceptional events take place. " In March and August of this Holy Year the Shroud was carefully examined by teams of different scientists. ... As a conclusion, the participants, among them scientists from different confessions and even some agnostics, asked the Holy See to declare the Shroud of Turin an authentic relic of the Lord Jesus. ...
• com) -- Pope John Paul II will sign a "motu proprio" on October 31, formally naming St. ...
• com) -- As he met with a new ambassador from Lebanon, Pope John Paul II renewed his appeal for "specially guaranteed international status" for the city of Jerusalem. ...

• Upon the unexpected death of John Paul I on September 28th, Cardinal Wojtyla rejoins the College of Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel to elect another Pope. John Paul I whose reign lasted on 33 days, was the first pope to choose a double name. Known as the "smiling Pope", John Paul I declined to have a coronation ceremony. ...
• Peter and chooses the name John Paul II. He becomes the first Polish Pope, the first non-Italian Pope since Adrian VI in 1523, and the youngest pontiff since Pope Pius IX one hundred years ago. Like his predecessor, John Paul II declines the papal tiara and is installed in an outdoor Mass in St. ...
• John Paul II begins an odyssey that would identify him as the "Pilgrim Pope": with the most extensive travel itinerary in the history of the papacy. ...
• John Paul II is shot in the abdomen on May 13th, Feast of Our Lady of Fatima in St. Peter's Square by would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Agca who John Paul would later forgive. ...
• John Paul II resumes his world visits traveling to Africa, Portugal, Great Britain, Brazil, Argentina, Switzerland, and Spain. ...
• John Paul II formally approves revision of the Code of Canon Law for the Latin Rite, replacing a code of 1918. ... The Shroud of Turin is bequeathed to the Pope by King Umberto. ...
• John Paul II holds first international gathering of young people at the Vatican. ...
• John Paul II inducts 28 new members into the College of Cardinals (an all-time high of 152). ...
• John Paul II establishes World Youth Day in Buenos Aires on Palm Sunday. ...
• John Paul II takes active interest in the communist countries issuing an Apostolic letter Euntes in Mundum commemorating 1000 years of the baptism of Saint Vladimir of Kiev and the Russian Church. ...

• A Shroud Interest Group, Inc.
• Imago Christi, A Shroud Interest Group, Inc. was organized to "research, study, and disseminate" information concerning the relic known as the Shroud of Turin. ... " It is a non-profit organization designed to help the public audience learn about the Shroud by facilitating an interest in the humanities. ...
• The project's primary purpose is for further study and research on the Shroud of Turin. The principal staff of Imago Christi, A Shroud Interest Group, Inc. ... Key consultants include directors and other individuals from Shroud centers established both nationally and internationally and from sindonology scholars. ...
• --> -->About the Shroud .
• Brief History of Turin Shroud --> .
• The remarkable object known as the "Shroud of Turin" has been an historically recorded relic since 1353 when it was documented as being owned by the de Charney family in France. ...
• The Shroud is believed by many to be the actual burial cloth of Jesus of Nazareth. History on the Shroud describes this unbleached, herringbone weave, sepia color cloth as 14 feet 3 inches long by 3 feet 7 inches wide. It was wrapped in red silk in a silver chest in the Chapel of the Holy Shroud in the Renaissance Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Turin, Italy, up until the time of the fire which occurred April 11-12, 1997. ... During the exposition of the Shroud, held in May-June 1998, the Shroud was exposed for public viewing in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. ...

• sacra sindone, the holy shroud. ...
• Larger Text Smaller Text Shroud of Turin inspires study, skepticism, faith.
• Official Shroud of Turin site .
• Effort gets pope's support.
• TURIN, Italy — Despite several scientific tests that seem to show it is a forgery, the Shroud of Turin still has the power to enthrall not only the devout, but also a cadre of scientists who claim the debunkers are wrong. ...
• Turin, in Italy's Alpine foothills, is a city of baroque palaces, ornate cafes and grand arcades. ...
• But Turin's most famous treasure remains the sacra sindone, "the holy shroud" — a 14-foot sheet of linen that tradition holds was wrapped around Jesus Christ's body after the Crucifixion and still bears his faint imprint. ...
• Millions of pilgrims, Pope John Paul II among them, came to Turin during the shroud's public exhibitions in 1998 and 2000. ...
• Even in its usual place, hidden in a covered glass box filled with argon gas to prevent oxidation and light damage, the shroud still draws people to the Duomo di San Giovanni. There visitors can see a copy of the shroud hanging above the box, both of which are kept behind a large window in a special black marble chapel. ...
• First mentioned in French accounts in the 14th century, the shroud was acquired by the Savoy dynasty and brought to Turin in 1578. ...
• The first scientific refutation of the shroud's miraculous origins came in 1978, when Walter McCrone, a respected Chicago microscopist, said he found pigments on shroud thread samples that indicated it was actually a medieval painting. ...
• This summer a Swiss expert in ancient and medieval textiles conducted a top-secret restoration of the shroud at the behest of the Vatican. ...
• But when the news first leaked in August, some shroud experts bristled. ...
• "Conservation run amok," said Paul Maloney, general projects director of the Association of Scientists and Scholars International for the Shroud of Turin, which has some 200 members. ...
• Maloney, who taught at two small evangelical Christian colleges, has spent years studying the shroud, writing about it, even delivering a prayer at its exposition in the Turin cathedral in 1998. ...

• SI DIGEST & The Shroud of Turin.
• As many of you know, the Shroud of Turin is one of the most remarkable historical artifacts on planet Earth. Believed by many to be the actual burial cloth of Christ, the Shroud has been the subject of intense devotion, exhaustive scientific research, heated debates, and ongoing controversies. Recently, SI DIGEST, the online newsletter of the COMMITTEE FOR THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF CLAIMS OF THE PARANORMAL (CSICOP), published an article by Joe Nickell about the Shroud of Turin that dismissed the Shroud as "perhaps the world's most notorious religious hoax. " Since CSICOP claims to champion serious scientific investigation, I immediately wrote the editors and asked them to either issue a public retraction concerning the Shroud article they published and/or offer an explanation as to why they ran an article on the Shroud that was so blatantly biased and uninformed. In case they weren't aware of the serious scientific investigation that has been, and continues to be conducted on the Shroud, my letter also included information from the Shroud of Turin Website (http://www. shroud. ... Schwortz, the Official Documenting Photographer for the SHROUD OF TURIN RESEARCH PROJECT, INC. ...
• They responded by clarifying a sentence in Nickell's story concerning the Shroud being part of a phoney faith-healing scheme to bilk credulous pilgrims (Nickell's, according to the editors of SI DIGEST, was referring to what took place in the 14th century, not what is taking place now in Turin). The SI DIGEST editors also included a longer article by Nickell, which elaborated on Nickell's current Shroud views. After sharing the longer Nickell article with Schwortz -- one of a handful of people on the planet who actually studied the Shroud in person with a team of highly-trained scientific experts -- Schwortz offered a more thorough rebuttal of Nickell's scholarship and views.
• The Shroud story that SI DIGEST published in their March 13, 1998 edition.
• The information from the Shroud of Turin Website that I included in my first letter to the editors of SI DIGEST.
• Especially important Shroud references on the NHNE Website.
• To dispel all notions that the Shroud of Turin can be dismissed as easily as Joe Nickell (and SI DIGEST) attempted to do in their recent article; 2. ...
• The Shroud story that SI DIGEST published in their March 13, 1998 edition:.

• (The Pope).
• Pope Calls for More Morality.
• While in Vercelli, the Pope called upon public officials to display more morality in carrying out their duties and attacked Italy's 20-year-old law legalizing abortion.
• The Pope and The Shroud.
• While visiting The Shroud of Turin, the Pope described it thus: "The Shroud, what an eloquent message of suffering and of love, of death and immortal life. The Shroud allows us to understand what Christ wanted to go through. ... " For the Pope, the Shroud is "the icon of the suffering of the innocent of all times. ...
• He also stated that once again, further scientific tests would be permitted because "Because the Shroud is not a matter of faith, the Church has no specific competence to make a decision on this. ... He called the Shroud a "challenge to our intelligence. ...
• Does anyone else see all the contradictions here? The Shroud, which has already been shown to be a medieval production many times over, cannot be an "icon to suffering" if it is a fake. ... Thus, the Pope reveals that he must believe it to be genuine - but on faith? Yet he said that it is not a matter of faith! Then he states that he wants the scientists to keep an open mind? Not only should he heed that message himself, he should then direct it at the legions of shroudies who will insist that it is genuine no matter what scientific or empirical evidence is presented. ...
• Pope: Evolution Theory Not Complete.
• VATICAN CITY (AP) Evolution alone can't account for humans' existence, Pope John Paul II told thousands of the faithful gathered in St. ...
• Sorry to break this to you, Pope, but evolution is indeed enough to explain the origins of humanity. ... The Pope claimed that the Shroud's authenticity isn't a matter of faith - but why is this? Why can science make claims about the Shroud, but not about human origins?.
• Pope tells U. ...

• By Paul Reidinger.
• The pope's new conquest.
• John Paul II canonizes a make-believe saint, beatifies two stool pigeons, and proclaims a new evangelization of Indian America. By John Ross.
• Editor's note: The recent travels of Pope John Paul II have made front-page headlines around the nation. Most of the stories have speculated on the pope's health and his future and have said little about the geopolitics of his missions. ...
• MEXICO CITY &# 150; As the crowning point of almost certainly his last trip to the Americas, during which he studiously avoided the United States and its lurid pederast priest scandals, an enfeebled Pope John Paul II early in August came to Mexico, the site of his very first papal visit 97 junkets and 23 years ago, to canonize a make-believe saint, beatify two stool pigeons, and proclaim a new evangelization of Latin America's 40 million Indians. ...
• The tone of the long-awaited canonization was set by the logo the church designed for the historic visit: a large, white-clad John Paul looming over a kneeling "Indian" whose racial characteristics seem closer to those of the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés than to those of the Aztec emperor Montezuma II. ...
• The president shocked advocates of a clear separation between church and state in this overwhelmingly Catholic republic by kneeling to kiss the Pope's ring. ...
• Sworn to secrecy by the basilica's then-abbot Guillermo Schulemberg, Flores revealed his findings on the eve of the pope's visit. Unlike in the case of the Shroud of Turin, the church has refused to permit scientific analysis of the tilma. ...
• Juan Diego was not the only Indian elevated to the church's pantheon during John Paul's recent sojourn. ...
• The beatification of the martyrs of Cojonos "signals the new evangelization of the Indians of the Americas," Oaxaca archbishop Hector Gonzalez pronounced from the high altar of the basilica to a dozing John Paul this past Aug. ... The blessing of the bones of the fiscales by the drooling pope triggered a wild, incense-filled celebration that contrasted sharply with the ceremonies staged for Fox government officials at Juan Diego's canonization the day before. ...
• "They are symbols of the conquest – how can the Pope beatify them?" .

• Although the Shroud of Christ was the principal object of the visit to Italy, many other religious shrines were visited as well. ...
• In Turin, after visiting the Shroud, the group went to the beautiful Church of Supegra, where the Latin Tridentine Mass was celebrated by Father Hector Bolduc, director of the tour. This magnificent church is located on a mountain high above the City of Turin.
• The visit to Rome occurred between the death of Pope John Paul I and the election of the new pope. ...
• At Saint Mary Major, the sacristan was induced to open the tomb of Pope St. ...
• The new bronze doors, ordered by Pope Paul VI, were not only hideous beyond belief, they were satanic and vulgar as is most of the art introduced in the Church in Rome during the reign of Paul VI.
• Prior to the pontificate of Paul VI, anyone presenting himself at a church in Rome, not in proper dress, was denied admittance. ...

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• Science, the Pope, and the Shroud of Turin .
•       As I read of the Pope viewing the Shroud of Turin on Sunday, May 24, that lengthy, hostile relationship came to mind. In his comments, the Pope encouraged scientists to continue testing the linen believed by many to have once held the body of Christ. ...
•       But in his book, Inquest On The Shroud Of Turin, Joe Nickell, Ph. ... , examines the history of the shroud, and the results of the testing that has already been performed.   The single cloth, one of forty shrouds asserted over time to have been used as Jesus' burial shroud, is of a weave not known to exist at that time, and does not fit the description from the Bible (John 20:5-7) of multiple cloths with a separate one covering the face. Also, prior to the middle of the 14th century, there is no historical record of this particular shroud; at that time, evidence of fraud was uncovered by a bishop in France, and an .
• artist's confession was obtained, eventually leading to a report to Pope Clement VII, who officially declared the shroud to be a painted "representation" in 1389. ...
•      It should also be noted that the hair of the image on the shroud appears as it would if its subject was standing, rather than lying down, and there are no wraparound distortions of the image as there would likely be if it had encompassed a body. ...
•      Finally, the Shroud of Turin has been subjected to numerous other scientific tests, including Carbon-14 dating by three laboratories in 1988, resulting in close agreement of a period circa 1260-1390 C. ...   Scientific investigation deems it likely that the shroud is the work of a medieval artist. ...
• The Pope asks that scientists respect both the "scientific methodology and the sensibility of the faithful". ...
•      Still, despite his overture towards coexistence, the Pope demonstrates a misunderstanding of the nature of scientific inquiry. ...
• " George Washington and Religion by Paul F. ...

• As millions view shroud in Italy, the mystery persists: Is it Christ's?.
• TURIN, Italy -- Huge crowds of believers are flocking to a newly o pened display of the Shroud of Turin despite the conclusions of scientists who say that the mysterious cloth cannot be the burial shroud of Jesus Christ.
• 6 million people, including Pope John Paul II, have already made reservations to attend the two-month exhibition, the first public display of the shroud in 20 years and only the fourth this century.
• Organizers expect as many as 3 million people to view the shroud before it is removed from public display on June 14. ...
• The gigantic response to the first public unveiling of the shroud in 20 years proves that the faithful are not deterred by the work of a team of scientists who used carbon-14 dating techniques in 1988 and concluded that the linen cloth comes from the medieval era, not the time of Christ.
• Believers in the shroud's authenticity -- and they are legion -- have been buoyed by challenges to the validity of the carbon tests and by new scientific data suggesting that the cloth may in fact have come from Jerusalem, where Jesus was put to death.
• "We know that the science went wrong, and the general public is not impressed by the carbon-14 results," said Virginia Crispino, an American scholar who has researched the shroud for 28 years. "The millions of people coming to Turin are not coming to see a fake. ...
• "The shroud goes very deeply into a person," said Mrs. Crispino, who is in Turin for the duration of the exhibition. ... The miracle of the shroud is the effect it has on people who go to see it. ...
• The shroud has been venerated by Pope John Paul II and many of his predecessors, but the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church are careful not to state that the shroud is definitely the actual burial cloth of Jesus Christ. They say instead that the shroud is an important symbol of Christ's pain.
• Researchers who believe further scientific tests may establish that the shroud is actually from the time of Christ contend that the radiocarbon test results are flawed because of biological and chemical contamination of the shroud during the centuries since the crucifixion.
• They hold that the results are inaccurate because the shroud was exposed to a serious fire when it was in the French town of Chambery in 1532 and that carbon from the smoke and flames landed on the shroud, greatly altering its carbon levels and altering the test results.
• Those who question the test results also say the shroud has been altered by a light coating of micro-organisms that have attached themselves to the cloth this century.

• : : Pope John Paul II : : .
• EVENTS IN THE PONTIFICATE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE JOHN PAUL II .
• Cardinal Karol Wojtyla is elected successor to Pope John Paul I, the 264th Pope of the Catholic Church and takes the name John Paul II.
• First "Urbi et Orbi" radio message of John Paul II.
• John Paul II's historic embrace of Cardinal Wyszynski.
• As Bishop of Rome, John Paul II takes possession of St. John Lateran Basilica.
• John Paul II accepts the request made by Argentina and Chile for the Holy See’s mediation in solving the controversy between the two countries.
• John Paul II receives in audience the Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei Gromyko.
• First Pastoral Visit of John Paul II outside Italy: Santo Domingo, Mexico (for the Third General Conference of the Latin American Bishops, Puebla), and the Bahamas (25 January-1 February 1979). ...
• Historic homily of John Paul II at Victory Square in Warsaw: "It is not possible to understand the history of the Polish nation without Christ".
• John Paul II addresses the General Assembly of the U. ...
• Good Friday: John Paul II hears confessions of the faithful for the first time in St. ...
• John Paul II's address to UNESCO in Paris.
• John Paul II receives in audience the President of the United States of America, Jimmy Carter.
• For the first time John Paul II alludes to the events happening in Poland regarding Solidarnosc.

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