One’s faith shouldn’t be incumbent of the Shroud ~ which I happen to believe is real.
By the same token, if it were proved not to be of Christ’s time that should also not refute one’s faith.
It seems to me that there are a lot of factions that have an interest in this who are not greatly concerned with the truth.
>It seems to me that there are a lot of factions that have an interest in this who are not greatly concerned with the truth.>
As in all things these days unfortunately ( ie, Obama religion).
Seems we are living in a relative scale of what is deemed “true” and “untrue” nowadays.
Faith alone is all that is required. In addition, it's nice that science has never been able to replicate the shroud image using the most modern of techniques.
I was in northen Italy last Novemeber on business and visited Turin. The church is in the downtown area and was sadly closed. The feelings I had walking by the church was simply awe inspiring.