Courier-Journal Thursday, September 1, 1988 Church adviser blasts reports of shroud test results By Agostino Bono interviewed by telephone from his home in labs have been analyzed under the was given a piece of cloth from the shroud, a Rone (NC) — The Catholic Church's Turin after the London Evening Standard supervision of the British Museum, he said. piece of cloth each from the first century and scientific adviser on the Shroud of Turin has published an article quoting Luckett as Gonella said that in mid-September the the Middle Ages, Gonella said. Luckett criticized a British professor for saying that saying Oxford University scientists have scientists involved in the testing will decide touched off the row August 26 by saying the the shroud is a hoax, after the professor determined that the shroud was made in the when to meet to analyze the results. After shroud was a 14th century forgery discovered hinted that information had leaked from a 14th century. that a scientific report will be written for by the Oxford testing. laboratory conducting tests on the relic. Neither Luckett nor Cambridge University publication in a professional journal and a "I think that as far as seems possible the The adviser, Luigi Gonella, said he doubts are involved in the shroud testing. The decision will be made on how and when to scientific argument is now settled and the that test results have been.leaked. He said testing is being done by Oxford University announce the findings, he said. Only Michael shroud is a fakef Luckett said. "I suppose there that no one is in a position yet to speak and two other laboratories under the Tite of the British Museum and Cardinal will be certain people who will never want to! definitively about the status of the shroud, supervision of the British Museum. Anastasio Ballestrero of Turin know which believe it, but it seems unlikely" the tests believed by many to be the burial cloth of "I am amazed that a university professor pieces belong to the shroud, Gonella said. could be 1,300 years off target. Jesus Christ. None of the labs involved has would write an article on a study that he has The shroud belongs to the Vatican but for been told which, of the cloth samples they not done," said Gonella. Luckett, while not involved in the testing, centuries it has been in the custody of the has been associated with investigations of the were given foriesjring came from the shroud. He said he also doubted that Oxford Archdiocese of Turin. University would Jiave leaked information shroud's history since examining it in 1973. Gonella criticized -statements by British Gonella heads the Shroud of Turin Pro­ professor Richard Luckett of Cambridge as about its results because it would be an He was not available for comment on the ject, formed by the cardinal to oversee "non-news" and unprofessional. He noted "evident violation" pf the rules agreed upon newspaper's report in which he did not that Luckett is not involved in the testing. by the testing labs. outside scientific testings of the shroud. specify the source of his information beyond remarking that "laboratories are rather leaky "It sounds like a campaign by someone Under the agreement each lab is doing "I officially have not been informed about institutions." who wants to use the tests for ideological or "blind testing" because they have not been anything and regard as non-news that which anti-church'purposes," said Gonella, the told which of three pieces of cloth they have is coming from London," said Gonella. "The main thing to report about this Church's liaison with scientists conducting been given belongs to the shroud, he added. "If it's true that Oxford would have let lightly-stained cloth with its traces of damage Carbon-14 tests to determine the date of the The job of the labs is to date three pieces leak something about the results of their by fire and flood, is that at first sight there shroud. of cloth, not to determine which is part of the analysis, it would be an evident violation of seems nothing to it... it is now evident that, Gonella said that scientists still have to shroud, he said. the procedures of the pacts," he added. superficially, the cafbon-testing will confirm analyze test results and it will be weeks No official information about the results Gonella said that the blind testing ar­ this view. A probable date of about 1350 before a final report is ready. He was will be released until the studies of all three rangement was requested by the labs. 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