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Experts: Shroud’s no fake

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It’s a Christmas miracle: Scientists and clergymen agree.

Italian scientists have conducted tests on a shroud that supposedly bears the imprint of Christ’s body, commonly called the Shroud of Turin, that show it can’t be fake — and the study is being embraced by priests around the country.

“They give a reasonable case that the shroud is authentic,” the Rev. Joseph Koterski, a Jesuit priest and philosophy professor at Fordham University, told The Daily. “The significance of this study is that they’re using new and better techniques. They’ve ruled out a number of ways in which forgery could have happened.”

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