What great timing. According to news outlets across the globe,
the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin may have finally been
proven. A new study by Italian scientists may not be definitive
on its origins, but it does refute the popular notion that it
was faked during the Middle Ages. According to ABC. experts at
Italy’s National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and
Sustainable Development have concluded in a report that the
famed purported burial cloth of Jesus Christ could not have been
faked. According to the Vatican Insider, a project by La Stampa
newspaper that closely follows the Catholic church, the experts’
report says, “The double image (front and back) of a scourged
and crucified man, barely visible on the linen cloth of the
Shroud of Turin has many physical and chemical characteristics
that are so particular that the staining which is identical in
all its facets, would be impossible to obtain today in a
laboratory … This inability to repeat (and therefore falsify)
the image on the Shroud makes it