>Probably because the church knows the shroud is bogus....sorry. Actually no, they (the last Pope at least) has said it is a question for science, not religion. But I *do* think the Church has no real desire for it to be found authentic. Why? Because one of the basic tenets of faith is that it should need no proof. It's been my experience that many Christians do not care at all for the idea that it possible that Jesus left behind definitive proof of his suffering on the cross, because it flies in the face of what they have been taught...that belief in him should be only a question of faith, not of proof.
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