Italian Police Recover Blood Cloth from Relic of Pope John Paul

Police on Friday recovered the piece of cloth stained with the blood of the late Pope John Paul, a day after they found the stolen gold and glass case which once contained the relic.   They told a news conference in L'Aquila, east of Rome, that they found the fragment in the garage of two men who were detained for having stolen the reliquary last week.   Bishop Giovanni D'Ercole told the same news conference he had pieced together the reliquary and the cloth after...

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