Due to the hundreds of years of back-and-forth over authenticity of the shroud the Catholic Church has no official position on its legitimacy. Several popes, however, recognized the cloth as a ...

Ownership of the shroud passed to the Catholic Church in 1983. Holy relics were a big thing during the Middle Ages. Body-parts of saints – some genuine, many probably not – criss-crossed Europe.

A new study claims the Shroud of Turin likely never touched Jesus, sparking debate over the authenticity of Christianity’s most famous relic. Moraes found that a shallow sculptural technique ...