... reaffirmed by a scientific commission appointed by the Higher Council of the World Health Organization in 1973.
Amazing, yet even without it, we can be sure that Christ meant what He said.
Way back before I was a Catholic, or even a Christian, I was reading about the Shroud of Turin, the most up to date information I could find, and reading the entire Bible several times. Many times.
It seemed to me that I gained the conviction that if this were all a work of fiction (Christ’s life, death, and resurrection) that it would read smoother, would have no apparent contradictions, would leave nothing to conjecture. Instead, these were real people writing about real events, and just what you’d expect: telling it the very most honest best that they could, inspired by God Himself.
I believed those witnesses.
When I looked for a church, since I no longer had a choice about being a believer, I went with the one which had formed at the beginning, the one that had been wrestling with the great questions since Christ Himself had lived. The Church that had room for Mystery, which is what had led me on my questioning since the beginning.
Never have I been disappointed.
Through the gift of faith, we may be certain Christ meant what He said.
WHO has never been a friend of the Catholic church as far as I am aware.
Yet, it seems they confirmed Church teaching.
God uses all kinds of evidence and all kinds of instruments.
We merely need to be willing to hear Him and accept Him on His Word.