Having referred to the Holy Shroud of Turin in my last blog as the quixotic reason I have chosen cremation, I was glad to note that in a long appendix at the end of his most recent book, God So Loved the World (Ignatius Press), author Robert Spitzer SJ examines all the evidence for the authenticity of the Holy Shroud and concludes “we might reasonably infer that the Shroud is the burial cloth of Jesus.”
Spitzer, former President of Gonzaga University and founder of the Magis Centre, subtitles his book “Clues to Our Transcendent Destiny from the Revelation of Jesus”. It is a scholarly, prayerful and very readable response to the challenging question: Do you believe that God personally revealed himself to mankind? In his endorsement of the book, Cardinal Schonborn thanks the author for his “precious and fundamental help to understand God’s love for the world.”
