US Catholic bishops launch website against 'Da Vinci Code' movie

AFP ^ | Fri Mar 10, 2006

[Red Badger]

I hope this movie implodes...........

[Tanniker Smith]

Doubtful, unless it makes a total mess of the plot, convoluted as it is already. Adapting intricate novels to the big screen is never easy, so it could be a disappointing mess that's hard to follow.

From what I understand, if you want to take the book out of the library in either Brooklyn or NYC, you'll have to put it on reserve and wait quite a while. before you get it.

[Battle Hymn of the Republic]

as long as the bishops use the written word of God to fight this movie, it will be shaper than any two edged sword...

I pray with them.

[Integrityrocks]

"Reporters have asked whether even a bestselling novel can seriously damage a Church of one billion believers."

Its one and a half billion.

[Battle Hymn of the Republic]

sharper, not shaper... typing with my fist this morning.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

I haven't read the book, but does the author of this book try to say that this is fact?

Isn't this book just a work of fiction?

[Mr_Peter]

Jeesh....It's a novel for Christ sake.

[Red Badger]

Everything that's in The Code was in Holy Blood, Holy Grail in the 80's. It was claptrap then, it's claptrap now..........

[Red Badger]

Half a billion are Holiday Catholics.........

[FormerLib]

I understand one of their biggest complaints about the book is that the author asserts certainly things about the Roman Catholic Church and claims they are true while the Church says they are not.

They should document every item and use them as their talking points to show how the author committed slander.

[presidio9]

Isn't this book just a work of fiction?

The author asserts in the preface that all the evidence used in the book is factual. This is unusual, and it is a lie. If it were "just a novel" why would he go out of his way to do this.

[Cyclopean Squid]

And yet reporters don't seem to ask whether a bunch of cartoons can seriously damage a faith of one billion believers.

[Battle Hymn of the Republic]

no, it's not a novel for the sake of Christ...

sake means purpose; motive; interest... :-)

[Tanniker Smith]

They should document every item and use them as their talking points to show how the author committed slander.

You know, that brings up an interesting point.
You can't "slander" a dead person.
There isn't a legal precedent for "slander" against someone who rose from the dead. Then again, he did ascend afterward, so I guess that would technically make him dead again in Earthly terms. So "slander" wouldn't apply.

TS
It's Friday, it's lunch time. I'm blowing off steam.

[Dudoight]

I have read the book. It is fiction but a good read. I sure wish the bishops would have had the moxie to start a website protesting the pedophiac priests...that was NOT fiction. Where are their priorities? They need to look within not without.

[FormerLib]

You can't "slander" a dead person.

I don't believe the Roman Catholic Church qualifies as a "dead person."

Whatever you call it, if he misrepresented something and claims it to be true, they should be able to prove him a liar.

[BlueNgold]

It's a movie - fiction - entertainment.

This is silliness in it's grandest form. I would think that given the news of the last few years that Catholic Bishops would have more important matters to deal with ... I would think.

[HolgerDansk]

"If only one person were to come away with a distorted impression of Jesus Christ or his Church, our concern is for that person as if he or she were the whole world," he wrote.

Probably the best thing that anyone could have said in the circumstances.

[Dudoight]

Hey...you and I think alike. Where were theses outraged bishops when the catholic hierarchy was shuffling child molesters from one parrish full of kids to another?

Get real...the book was fiction, the characters were fiction...the pedophiliacs were REAL.