I prayerfully hope the Catholic Church realizes how deficient religious education and catechesis have been post-Vatican II, especially in the United States. That many otherwise-observant Catholics might buy the arguments and "facts" presented in "The Da Vinci Code" is appalling.
What does Vatican II have to do with that?
If one has a half-decent education on the faith, they might remember that Jesus said that it is better to put a yoke on your neck and be thrown into the sea than to bring [scandal to the innocent].
Basically, for Jesus to sin, would have been a great scandal, and by Jesus' own words, He should have killed himself by being drowned in the sea rather than commit an act of scandal...
The whole premise of the movie is that Jesus committed sin and scandal. But if Jesus was the man-God, how could that happen.
The exact quote I am using is from Matthew 18:5-10 (it is also found in the Gospel of Mark):
Matt 18:5-10 5 "And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me.6 But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
7 "Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!
8 If your hand or your foot causes you to sin cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.
9 And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
10 "See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.
(NIV)
The movie is a direct affront to this passage of the Gospel, as well as the words Jesus said: "Before Moses, I AM!" -- which where the phrase comes that Jesus is the Great I am.
People should be taught such things from the pulpit - Catholic or Christian, and what these words really mean...