Cardinal urges boycott of Da Vinci Code

Houston Chronicle ^ | March 16, 2005 | Reuters News Service

[Eva]

The scary part of the popularity of the book is the overwhelming ignorance of the population that would rate the book so highly. It's simply indicative of the quality of public school education.

[A.A. Cunningham]

The book also says: "All description of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate." Browns' own words; it's fiction but it's accurate fiction.

Lots of gullible folks in this world, many whom, unfortunately, are Catholics that are only too willing to line hack writer Browns' pockets. Plenty of people in the Vatican and within the Catholic Church; Opus Dei, Carl Olson, etc. have spoken out and written about this waste of pulp since it was published. This is only news because an official appointment has been made to educate the gullible movie goers in the world before they make the mistake of lining the pockets of Brown, et al.

[sevry]

liberal insinuation that any criticism of a book/movie is the same as confiscating and "burning" books.

I agree. That's exactly the insinuation Peter Jennings was attempting tonight. The guy is just oily. I'll be glad when he finally retires. The man is just insulting almost for his physical presence.

I can understand The Church's historic list of banned books. Certainly the Protestant went after books with a fever. But you know who surpassed even them, or even the oft compared and leftist Nazis for that matter - Jennings' own libs, of this latest modern era. That's the whole point of their political correctness, and not just in Communist dictatorships. Look to the furor at any college campus, any lefist publisher, the entire gamut of the LM - censor books they don't like, shut down sites they don't like, or try to shut them down. The last 25 years, at least, have seen the iron fist of liberalism right here in the good ole USA, and the desire to censor anything and everything that doesn't suit their own agenda. College libraries have 'red tagged' untold number of volumes not because they were worn, but because they were seen as orthodox or conservative. Hillaire Belloc was excised, and the like of Asimov or even Rahner were re-ordered. Burn them books, you libs. The important ones will still exist somewhere, and be reprinted, or put out as etext. Then what will you do? All it takes is for one book to escape the liberal bonfires.

[Callahan]

Beyond the Jesus bloodline hokum, the accusation of the book is that the Catholic hierarchy used Christianity to suit their own political ends. Any Protestant has to agree with at certain percentage of that statement.