The record on the Shroud is agreed on more than people expect, and disputed on the things that matter most: how old the cloth is, how the image got there, and what, if anything, the Church says about it. These four pages give each argument its strongest case and the reply to it. Where the site labels a claim, the label follows the rule used everywhere here: Documented, Contested, Claimed, or Film.
The Dating
1988, and everything that has been argued since
How Could the Image Form?
Every proposed mechanism, from every camp, and what each one fails to reproduce
The Case Against
The skeptic's argument at full strength, with the reply to each point
The Church and the Shroud
What Rome has actually said, in Rome's words