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...details it pointed out in the cloth. "The wounds on the shoulders," she explains, "the wounds from the flogging, the wounds on the knees. And there was one thing I remember very distinctly that touched me very much. There was a professor of medicine who studied the shroud and said the point at which the nails were driven in was a very painful place. Every movement this person had to make in order to breathe made him suffer more. All these details make me absolutely positive that it's genuine." She says with a revitalized faith, "The person was Christ...
Personally, Arizona's Damon is getting a little tired of that attitude. "The problem with dating the shroud is that you're in the realm of religion rather than science," he complains. Instead of going over the same ground again and again, he would prefer to resume his current research on global warming...
...Marella Trabattoni and Paul Damon be reconciled? Perhaps not; they inhabit different worlds. But it is worth noting that the church, which has been dealing with such issues for centuries, has a clear policy on relics, notwithstanding John Paul's private opinion on the shroud. They are to be venerated, not worshipped; valued not for their own divinity but because they turn believers' souls toward that which is truly holy. At the time of the radiocarbon dating, Peter Rinaldi, an American priest known as "Mr. Shroud" for his devotion to the linen sheet, wrote several letters to other devotees...
...Christians worldwide--including those now wending their way toward Turin--if the shroud were proved absolutely, indisputably medieval tomorrow, he would remain sufficient...
...sort of resurrection has occurred. Counterintuitive as it may seem in an age when technology has either trumped belief or become its new focus, a fascination with the shroud seems to have not only survived but also flourished. It can be tracked on the World Wide Web, from the official archdiocese site to the home page of the Turin fire brigade (which saved the relic during a fire last April). It can be discussed at the Centre International d'Etudes sur le Linceul de Turin in Paris, the Collegamento pro Sindone in Rome (sindon is the Latin word for shroud...