#12515 Debunking Claims Against the Shroud of Turin - Fr. Andrew Dalton
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🗓️ 24 December 2025
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Summary
Interview with Fr. Andrew Dalton debunking claims against the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin
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Topics Covered:
- 05:50 – Carbon dating has already proved the shroud as a fake.
- 13:57 – Was there any evidence of the shroud before the 1300s?
- 20:41 – Does Jesus’ long hair go against historical trends for Jewish men of the time?
- 22:40 – Is the blood too red on the shroud?
- 29:00 – Was a burst of light what imprinted the image on the shroud?
- 33:34 – What should our methodology be?
- 38-28 – Baby Jesus and the shroud
- 43:31 – The crown of thrones
- 47:20 – The connection to Abraham and Isaac
- 51:55 – Wounds on the wrists instead of the hands
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Catholic Answers Live. My name is Edgar Luano. Welcome to this Christmas Eve special episode of the show where we're here with Father Andrew Dalton. We're going to be talking about the shroud of turn. It's something that I think every Catholic should know about and also be prepared to explain what this shroud is and what it actually means to people with the Catholic faith. So Father Andrew Dalton, |
| 0:23.3 | welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you for having me. I love Catholic answers and I'm so honored |
| 0:28.3 | to finally be here. I've probably seen this on my screen a thousand times. Well, now you're a part of |
| 0:32.6 | the screen. This is great. So the shroud return. I remember hearing about this thing growing up when I started getting involved in the Catholic faith. |
| 0:41.8 | And it's always been up in the air of how people explain it. |
| 0:46.1 | You either have people that are from the secular world who just immediately say, that's not real. |
| 0:50.4 | It's been debunked. |
| 0:51.5 | Why do Catholics still look at this thing and claim it's Jesus? |
| 0:55.6 | And then you have from the religious perspective, the grandmother's at church who have a deep |
| 1:00.1 | devotion to it. So before we get into that, tell me a little bit about yourself and how you got |
| 1:06.6 | into studying the shroud. Right. Well, I had a similar experience, I think, where I didn't take |
| 1:15.4 | account of how important this is and how potentially powerful it is for evangelization. |
| 1:21.1 | Because I was 10 years a seminarian, and I was not well-versed on the shroud. If I even knew of |
| 1:26.4 | its existence, I think barely I did, but I couldn't have told you two sentences about it. |
| 1:31.9 | And so there I am in Rome studying theology, and a priest's friend of mine said, there's a shroud expert coming. |
| 1:39.9 | You need to hear this lecture. |
| 1:42.8 | And that is Emmanuel Marinelli, and she is amazing. So if you don't know her work, And that is Emmanuel Marinelli. |
| 1:44.6 | And she is amazing. |
| 1:45.9 | So if you don't know her work, I mean, she's Italian, but her works are published in |
| 1:49.9 | English as well. |
| 1:51.2 | I sat at the back of the room just in case I had to, you know, sneak out early because I |
| 1:56.5 | didn't know how monumentally important it would be and how life-changing it would be |
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