[MyTwoCopperCoins]

Benedict XVI’s announcement will allow millions of people to see the linen cloth that according to tradition was wrapped around the body of Jesus after his death, showing that “mysterious Face, which silently speaks to the hearts of men, inviting them to see in it the face of God.”

If this doesn't qualify as idolatry, I am not sure what else does.

[trumandogz]

“In 1988, three reputable laboratories in Oxford, Zurich and Tucson carried out radiocarbon tests on the cloth and declared it a brilliant, medieval fake produced between 1260 and 1390.”

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/03/21/shroud-turin.html

[ZULU]

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Reverence and Idolatry are two different things. The failure to recognize the distinction led to the MUSLIM directed Iconoclastic Heresy in the Byzantine Empire.

[Ann Archy]

Here comes the anti-Catholic crapola.....

[A.A. Cunningham]

You must have gone to public school.

[SuziQ]

If this doesn't qualify as idolatry, I am not sure what else does.

It's not idolatry, because Catholics don't 'worship' the Shroud. We may revere the Shroud, if we believe it could be the burial cloth of our Lord and Savior. What it DOES do, is cause us to contemplate that profound sacrifice He made for our salvation, and make sure that we are living our lives in such a way as to be worthy of that sacrifice.

[Petronski]

If this doesn't qualify as idolatry, I am not sure what else does.

And since it does not qualify as idolatry, the rest of your statement is self-proving.

[Coleus]

If this doesn't qualify as idolatry, I am not sure what else does. >>>

how does seeing a cloth constitute idolatry?