The Pope Has Important Things to Talk About: The Shroud of Turin!

Image from source, Live Science

Really, are we back to this? Earlier this month they found Noah's Ark (again). Now, we're back to the Shroud of Turin, dubious Biblical relic. Whatever, Ratzinger. It's not like there are important things for you to tend to.

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Pope Nearly Endorses the Shroud of Turin, But Is It Real?

On Sunday Pope Benedict XVI prayed before the Shroud of Turin, believed by many to be the burial shroud of Jesus. Benedict said that the shroud (which he called "an icon written in blood") provides a lesson in maintaining hope in the face of adversity, and that the faithful can see their trials and sufferings "mirrored" in the suffering of Christ as depicted on the shroud.



"This is a burial cloth that wrapped the remains of a crucified man in full correspondence with what the Gospels tell us of Jesus," Benedict said. . .

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