As we go into the holidays, remind your credulous friends that the shroud is not a real relic- never was, never will be. It is an object that helps people focus on Christ- so it is tolerated. It really does have a history, and that the American stupid dont understand that i probably due to how few christians could slog through this article and read it- let alone retain that info. The Church, however, firmly resisted accepting the Shroud’s authenticity as a relic. It was only prepared to recognise that it was an object of veneration, a point stressed by a papal congregation of 1670, which allowed an indulgence to be obtained from visiting an exposition on the sole grounds that it gave rise to meditation on the Passion. This remains the position taken by the Catholic Church, one recently reasserted by Pope Francis. (It is worth remembering that it was the Church itself that commissioned the radio-carbon dating of 1988, which came up with a 95 per cent probability that the flax for the linen was cut between 1260 and 1390.)
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 23:14:37 +0000
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