An Ancient Shroud and an Eternal Debate. The display of Turin’s famed relic begins Sunday
Wall Street Journal
(Francis X. Rocca) When the Shroud of Turin goes on display Sunday for the first time in
five years, it will revive a long-running debate as to whether it is a
medieval fabrication or—as Catholic devotees have believed for
centuries—the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. But that debate raises the larger question of why Catholics venerate the shroud—and countless other relics. (...)






















