Shroud of Turin News, July - December 2025

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This is the second instalment of my Shroud of Turin News for July - December 2025. I am still catching up with my Shroud news articles. As previously mentioned, I don't want to abandon my Shroud of Turin News posts, because they will be helpful in writing Chapter 11, "History of the Shroud," of my book in progress, Shroud of Turin: Burial Sheet of Jesus! [Right (enlarge)]. See 06Jul17, 03Jun18, 04Apr22, 13Jul22, 08Nov22, 20Jun24; 01Dec24 & 15Dec25. Articles will be in date order. My comments will be within [bold square brackets] to distinguish them from the articles' words. I will list the more significant articles, and then comment on them.

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My news Yesterday, 17 July, I started on the next stage of writing my book: completing each chapter, the first being "01 Preface". My book is an outline of 27 chapters, each in various stages of completness. For the first time I started writing it in Microsoft Word processed form.

"The silent sermon: The evangelical power of the Shroud," The Catholic Weekly, 2 July 2025, Daniel Ang. The Shroud of Turin has intrigued believers and non-believers alike for centuries. And in recent decades, it has become increasingly clear that the Shroud is not merely a religious curiosity. It is, in fact, one of the most extraordinary artefacts in human history. [The Shroud is not an artefact. An artefact is man-made: "An artifact or artefact (British English) is a general term for an item made or given shape by humans, such as a tool or a work of art, especially an object of archaeological interest."[AAW], but the Shroud image is God-made, i.e. acheiropoiētos, "not made with [human] hands." The word occurs three times in the New Testament, of things made by God: Jesus' resurrection body (Mk 14:58; Jn 2:19-21); Christians' resurrection bodies (2Cor 5:1 and Christians' conversion (Col 2:11). It was used in c. 593 by the early historian Evagrius Scholasticus (c. 536-94) who wrote of a "divinely wrought image" (Gk acheiropoietos) on the Image of Edessa/Shroud which saved Edessa from a Persian siege in 544. ...]

"Intersection of science of faith: Shroud Conference shows `what God is like'". Catholic Outlook, 16 July 2025, by Outlook Contributor.

"Was the Shroud Laid on a Sculpture? A Study Full of Errors," UCCR, Alessandro Piana, 3 August 2025.

"Church and scientists respond to superficial `study' claiming that the Shroud of Turin is not authentic," ZENIT, 8 August 2025, Valentina di Giorgio.

"Shroud, A Rumor in a Medieval Document Peddled as Proof," UCCR, 29 Aug 2025. Alessandro Piana.

"Shroud of Turin to go on virtual display for Holy Saturday," EWTN, 26 September 2025, Hannah Brockhaus.

"Discovery in Turin’s Shroud confirms burst of radiant energy at Resurrection," ZENIT, 2 October 2025.

"Obituary: Daniel Carl Scavone," February 11, 1934 – November 7, 2025, Dignity Memorial, 7 November 2025.

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To be continued in the third instalment of this post.

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Bibliography
AAW. "Artifact (archaeology)," Wikipedia, 18 June 2026.
RTB. Reference(s) to be provided.

Posted 17 July 2026. Updated 18 July 2026.