Mystery and Faith

Russ Breault has been researching and lecturing on the Shroud of Turin for over 30 years. His highly acclaimed presentation known as "Shroud Encounter" makes use of over 200 superb images and unfolds like a CSI investigation. He has presented to hundreds of audiences from New York to Hawaii, including college and university presentations and dozens of international research symposia. He has also appeared in several nationally televised documentaries, including Mysteries of the Ancient World on CBS, and was the advisor and primary expert for the highly acclaimed Uncovering the Face of Jesus — a two-hour documentary on The History Channel. Mr. Breault is the president and founder of the Shroud of Turin Education Project Inc. and a member of the Shroud Science Group.

Barrie Schwortz was the Official Documenting Photographer for the Shroud of Turin Research Project, the team that conducted the first in-depth scientific examination of the Shroud in 1978. Today, he plays an influential role in Shroud research and education as the editor and founder of the internationally recognized Shroud of Turin website (www.shroud.com), the oldest, largest and most extensive Shroud resource on the internet, with more than ten million visitors from over 160 countries. In 2009, he founded the Shroud of Turin Education and Research Association, Inc. (STERA, Inc.), to which he donated the website and his extensive Shroud photographic collection, as well as many other important Shroud resources. He currently serves as the president of STERA, Inc. Schwortz has conducted Shroud lectures around the world and has appeared in programs and documentaries on every major broadcast and cable television network. His photographs have appeared in hundreds of books and publications and in countless television documentaries. He has written many Shroud articles and papers that have been published in periodicals or presented at conferences around the world, the most recent in the March 2010 issue of Catholic Digest.

Father Robert Spitzer is a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order, philosopher, educator, author, speaker, and retired president of Gonzaga University. He is also the founder and president of the Magis Institute of Reason of Faith and the founder and president of the Spitzer Center of Ethical Leadership. The author of numerous books and articles on a range of subjects, he has also appeared on several national television programs and currently hosts his weekly program on EWTN, “Father Spitzer’s Universe.”

Cheryl H. White, PhD, is professor of history at Louisiana State University at Shreveport, where she holds the endowed Hubert Humphreys Professorship. Her primary field is medieval and early modern Europe, and she has been engaged in Shroud scholarship for nearly 30 years. She is a member of the American Confraternity of the Holy Shroud, a board member of the Shroud of Turin Research and Education Association, and the co-host of a popular international podcast series, Who Is the Man of the Shroud?