(May 17, 2015 at 1:42 pm)abaris Wrote:(May 17, 2015 at 1:28 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:
St. John Paul II
Pope Benedict XVI
And yet, as can be easily looked up, the official position is tap dancing around the issue. As opposed to some other relics, which are equally dubious in their origin.
And this is because the Catholic Church understands that the Shroud cannot be PROVEN to be the burial cloth of Christ. She is prudent in this regard, and if the claims were more, you would be howling against them.
However, as seen above, the Shroud does cause us to reflect upon what happened to Jesus because it appears to parallel the forensic account of Jesus' passion so well.