[Cronos]

scientific dating has shown it to be of Renaissance dating

Actually further scientific study has proven that to be false -- the research was on strands used to mend the shroud in the middle ages, hence they date from that period. Other studies indicate that it DOES date from the time of Christ. However, whichever way the proof goes remember that your statement "Should the Catholic Church be arrested for perpetrating this fraud on the world?" is wrong -- the Catholic Church allowed the studies and it does consider the Shroud worthy of devotion but not unprovenly the shroud of the Christ..

[gscc]

The Catholic Church maintains that the Renaissance dating is due to the mending, yet it will not give a sample of the shroud that was not mended to retest and confirm that the mending caused a false dating. There are no studies that definitively date the shroud to the time of Christ.