On display until May 11, the relic has drawn intense devotion, particularly following the recent death of Pope Francis.

Skeptics consider the relic, allegedly used to dab Jesus' sweat and blood, a fraud invented during the Crusader period.

Then, I wrote a 55-page article documenting mentions of Jesus’ burial clothes ... ever since I saw my first Shroud book in 1977. The lifelike image of that Holy Face on the cover (the negative ...

The holy tunic of ... The popularity of the Shroud of Turin only truly exploded after 1898, following photographs by Secondo Pia, which revealed the famous face of Jesus on the negative.

Jesus on the cross was the poorest man in the world. Helplessness is of course difficult to depict in art, where the face of Jesus crucified is either shown in great agony—perhaps too ...

Fourth is “awareness that God sees everything.” (Circling back to Genesis 1:3-4 since God “invented” sight.) His all-knowing, ...

That’s the cry we echo in the Taizé chant we sometimes sing on Holy Thursday night: “Stay with me, remain here with me, watch and pray…” Jesus doesn’t want to face this alone.