THE UNBIBLICAL SHROUD OF TURIN TURIN SHROUD WILL ABSOLVE SIN OF ABORTION, SAID ARCHBISHOP
It would be interesting to find out how much money has been brought into the Roman Catholic Church and Italy with the exhibits of the Shroud of Turin. The Shroud of Turin is supposedly the linen Jesus was wrapped in when He was placed into the tomb. The KJV Bible is God's message to us and includes a very clear description the grave clothing Jesus left behind when He went back to His Father in heaven.
"Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulcher, and seeth the linen clothes lie, And the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself. Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulcher, and he saw, and believed. For as yet they knew not the Scripture, and he must rise again from dead." (John 20:6-9)
The Bible clearly states that Jesus had a napkin about His head and linen cloth around His body, in other words there two pieces considered to be His burial clothes. The Shroud of Turin could not possibly represent Jesus' burial clothes, since it features an imprint of the whole body and then some.
VATICAN (CWNews.com) May 22, 2000 -- At a May 22 press conference in Rome, Archbishop Severino Poletto outlined plans for the next public showing of the Shroud of Turin, which will take place from August 19 to October 22 of this year.
Archbishop Poletto remarked that the display of the Shroud might even furnish an occasion for new advances in relations between Rome and the Russian Orthodox Church. The archbishop had recently returned from Moscow, where he had visited as part of a delegation of Catholic prelates meeting with Patriarch Alexei II. Archbishop Poletto said that he had issued an invitation for the Russian Orthodox leader to visit Turin and venerate the Shroud.
The Turin archbishop said that because "the cult of holy images" is particularly important to the Orthodox world, the invitation to view the Shroud might spur ecumenical progress. Although it is generally regarded as quite unlikely that Patriarch Alexei would accept the invitation, one high-ranking Russian Orthodox prelate has already announced that he will make such a visit. Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kalingrad will head an Orthodox delegation visiting Turin from September 23- 25.
Pope John Paul II also has received a formal invitation to return to Turin for the exposition of the Shroud. The Holy Father made that trip in May 1998, during the last public display. And Vatican officials have announced that he will not be able to make the same visit this year. But Archbishop Poletto said that he still holds out some hope for a papal visit, because the Pope has made several surprise additions to his Jubilee schedule.
The display of the Shroud this year was scheduled to begin on August 26. That schedule was adapted, moving the opening date forward into early August, so that the young people traveling to Italy for World Youth Day might have an opportunity to attend the exposition.
Organizers of the display in Turin will follow the same procedure that they employed in 1998, asking visitor to reserve a day and time for viewing the Shroud. Although there will be no charge for the viewing, the organizers explain that these reservations are necessary in order to ease the press of crowds around the Turin cathedral during the display. [ http://www.cwnews.com/index.cfm ]
TURIN SHROUD WILL ABSOLVE SIN OF ABORTION By Jo Knowsley
.ROMAN Catholic priests who visit the Shroud of Turin will
be able to absolve any woman in the city from the sin of abortion,
the Archbishop of Turin said last night.
The decree was made by Cardinal Giovanni Saldarini before a mass
at the San Domenico Cathedral, to celebrate the first public
display of the shroud for 20 years. The exhibition will run until
June 14 and is expected to attract more than three million pilgrims.
The cardinal's announcement means that any Roman Catholic priest
based in, or visiting, Turin and the relic can absolve women
of "the sin of abortion" during the time that the shroud
is on display.
"Voluntary abortion" normally belongs to a rare category
of sins which carries automatic excommunication. Usually the
intervention of a bishop would be required to obtain absolution.
Under the decree abortion can be treated as an ordinary sin which
can be cleansed by the sacrament of confession, a move expected
to produce a rash of women who have never spoken before of their
sin.
Last night Turin looked likely to become as much a haven for
souvenir vendors as a pilgrim's paradise, with sellers stock-piling
tasteless goods. T-shirts and Swatch-style watches, which feature
an image of the face of Christ like the one said to be on the
shroud, are just two of them.
The 14ft shroud, last shown in 1978, is displayed in a £300,000 bomb and fire-proof casket. Weighing more than 4,000lb and moved by a special trolley weighing another 5,000lb, it has a computer-regulated micro-climate and uses inert argon gas to protect the delicate relic.
Pope John Paul II, who first saw the shroud in 1978, is expected to visit the cathedral on May 24. He will have a special kneeler for the viewing but other pilgrims will have less than two minutes.
Yesterday a mass was held to mark the opening of the exhibition which also celebrates the 100th anniversary of the first photograph being taken of the shroud. The picture fuelled the controversy which has raged since the shroud's existence was first recorded in 1339.
In 1988, however, a team of scientists questioned the authenticity of the shroud after carbon dating showed it was only 600 to 700 years old. But new books, television documentaries, and theories about the sacred cloth continue to abound. And still the faithful come.
- They believe that the shroud was used to wrap the body of Christ after the Crucifixion and that it then made a trip from Jerusalem to Odessa, to Constantinople to Chambery, in France, and finally arrived in Turin in 1578.
The Roman Catholic Church in Britain last week said it had no "official" view of the shroud. A spokesman said: "If people want to believe in the shroud they can. If they do not, it is in no way blasphemous. We see it as an icon, an aid to spirituality." Cardinal Saldarini says cautiously that the Shroud "is not Christ but a sign pointing to Him".
In Italy anticipation over the display has reached fever pitch. Advertisements featuring Baroque music daily interrupt radio programmes to tell anyone listening that Turin is proud to be putting on show the Shroud of Christ; its image has flooded television and newspapers; and the national railway corporation is offering a 15 per cent discount on return journeys to Turin to anyone with a ticket for the shroud.
News coverage has focused heavily on fresh claims that the 1988 carbon dating could be flawed and other theories that claim cotton fragments match those which existed at the time of Christ.'CLONED CHRIST' FILM By Victoria Combe, Churches Correspondent
DETAILS of a science fiction film about cloning Jesus Christ from cells on the Turin Shroud were announced yesterday.
The film, which has the working title Clone, is being produced by David Rolfe, managing director of Performance Films, and the director of a 1978 documentary about the shroud. Mr Rolfe decided to announce his new film to coincide with preparations for the first public exhibition of the shroud in 20 years.Carbon dating on the shroud 10 years ago showed that it came from the 13th Century, although more recent studies claim that the dating was rendered inaccurate by bacteria in the fabric.
The film is likely to upset some Christians who will be offended by the concept of a genetically-engineered Second Coming and the treatment of such am emotive subject in a science fiction thriller.
Catholic Bishops display the Turin Shroud - Mr Rolfe is looking for a distributor to back the film's £10 million budget. [ http://www.telegraph.co.uk - 10 April 1998 ]
THE AMERICAN SHROUD OF TURIN ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES DEATH OF FOUNDER - The American Shroud of Turin Association for Research (AMSTAR), announces with deep regret the death of Dr. Alan D. Adler on June 11, 2000.
stained areas on the Shroud are human blood. Dr. Adler was involved with sindonological research for many years, particularly in the area of conservation of the Shroud. However, Dr. Adler's encyclopedic knowledge extended to virtually every scientific discipline. His death leaves an inestimable void in sindonological research.
Dr. Adler was a founder and board member of AMSTAR, a scientific organization dedicated to conducting research in connection with the Shroud of Turin.Dr. Adler was an internationally renown chemist and an acclaimed expert on porphryns, a component of human blood.Dr. Adler's research proved that the blood
Dr. Adler served on the Conservation Commission of both Cardinal Saldarini and Archbishop Poletto. He was a member of ACS, APS, AAAS, NYAS, HSS, American Association of Clinical Chemistry, American Society of Photobiology and Sigma Xi.- They believe that the shroud was used to wrap the body of Christ after the Crucifixion and that it then made a trip from Jerusalem to Odessa, to Constantinople to Chambery, in France, and finally arrived in Turin in 1578.
REDDING, Conn. (AP) -- Alan D. Adler, a renowned expert in
blood chemistry who investigated the Shroud of Turin for the
Vatican, died Saturday. He was 68.
The shroud, which many believe was Christ's burial cloth, bears
a faded image of a bearded man and what appear to be bloodstains
that coincide with Christ's crucifixion wounds. The 13-foot-long
linen cloth has been kept in the city of Turin, Italy since 1578.
[Editors note: We will be putting graphics of the Shroud on Cephas
Website. It proves that it is not Scriptural. The image on the
Shroud is the image of a complete body which cannot represent
Jesus Christ's body since His burial clothes involved two pieces,
one over His face and one over His body (John 20:7)]
Adler established in 1988 the shroud image was that of a person,
and the blood came from violently inflicted wounds. He said blood
flowing from wounds has a different chemistry than blood flowing
in veins. But he said he couldn't prove whether the image on
the shroud was Christ's.
"We know for sure it's human blood and it came from a man
who died a traumatic death,'' Adler said in a 1998 interview.
"There's no laboratory test for 'Christ-ness.'''
The retired biochemist also worked in the 1990s for the Cardinal's
Conservation Commission for the Shroud of Turin and wanted to
ensure the ancient cloth didn't continue to deteriorate. He suggested
encasing the shroud in argon gas to stop the decaying process.
Adler was an assistant professor of molecular biology at the
University of Pennsylvania until 1967, when he took the job of
senior staff scientist with the New England Institute in Ridgefield.
In 1974, he joined the faculty of Western Connecticut State University
in Danbury and later founded the biochemistry department there.
He taught at Western for 20 years. From the New York Times, June
13, 2000 - Filed at 6:00 a.m. EDT By the Associated Press
"...I feel that I was very privileged to share time with
him when we visited Alan Whanger together in Durham, N.C. I treasure
the words he gave me, increasing several fold my knowledge about
natural processes, which took place in the "chemical history"
of the shroud of Turin. I loved the moments we talked together
and we had a lot of such moments in North Carolina, in Turin
in the summer of 1998 and in Turin in March 2000. Whenever he
opened his mouth in the scientific discussions at the last meeting,
everybody became silent - everybody knew that the best scientific
ideas were going to be heard.
"I can hardly believe that I shall have to talk of the so-vivid
Alan Adler in the past tense... he is present with me all the
time." Excerpted from a letter to Jean Adler from
Avinoam Danin
"...He will be greatly missed and, in the truest sense
of the word is "irreplaceable." His number of years
in sindonology, his encyclopedic grasp of all subfields in this
area from textiles to analytic chemistry and - most of all -
his dedication and devotion to the cause long after many of the
original members of STURP had lost interest and/or been frightened
away by the C-14 dating.
"...Maybe his death is a wakeup call that we had best be
doing a better job of recruiting the next and younger generation
of researchers to carry on the torch which Al so proudly bore
for so many years of faithful service.
"...In talking to (his wife) Jean last night, she said that
Al wanted a party for his friends and co-workers, not a mournful
service... I suggest that any and all who wish to remember him
and his many contributions to students, Boy Scouts, the "Shroud
Crowd" and all others whose lives he touched and inspired,
lift a toast to his life among us and wish him God's speed in
his new "classroom" where I am sure he is probably
already talking and continuing to share his encyclopedic mind
with others."
Excerpted from two letters from The Rev. Albert ("Kim")
R. Dreisbach [Source: www.shroud.com]
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