CNN Portrays 'The Da Vinci Code' Movie as Sin 'Too Grave to be Forgiven'

NewsBusters.org ^ | 6/19/2008 | Matthew Balan

[Pyro7480]

CNN, following in the footsteps of ABCNews.com’s overblown take on the subject, couldn’t help but to insert snotty language into its report on the Catholic Diocese of Rome’s denial to the filming of the movie adaptation of Dan Brown’s "Angels and Demons." CNN international correspondent Jennifer Eccleston, closing her report on Thursday’s "American Morning," labeled the Church’s refusal, based on "The Da Vinci Code" book and movie’s bashing of the Catholic faith, "a big problem in Rome, where some sins are just too grave to be forgiven -- even if they're for art's sake."

"Sins" that are "just too grave to be forgiven" is a reference to Matthew 12:32.... It isn’t certain that Eccleston had this scriptural quotation in mind, but it certainly gave the impression that the Church is being "un-Christian" for not letting Ron Howard and Tom Hanks film there.

Eccleston also played a clip of movie critic Tom O’Neil of "In Touch Weekly," who was more overt about the Church acting in an un-Christian manner. "The Church could have just turned the other cheek and quietly said no, you can't use our churches. Instead, they have vehemently denounced this movie publicly as an offense against God, as poison of the faith.... Wow, those don't sounds like typically Christian words."

...[R]ight before she ran the first clip of Fr. Wauck, Eccleston ran file footage of men burning a copy of the Italian edition of "The Da Vinci Code,"giving an even stronger impression that Catholics are reacting to Brown’s works in an un-Christian manner....

[Pyro7480]

Typically MSM bias concerning the Catholic Church...

[Pyro7480]

Catholic ping!

[the invisib1e hand]

No, AP and Reuters are typical. CNN is particularly low rent.

At least on this one.

[dalebert]

Pure bull

[the invisib1e hand]

the media vs. the people.

Talking heads vs. Intelligence.

[originalbuckeye]

Pressitutes continuing to inject their politics into a news story. Just a comment: Tom Hanks is a tad old to play that character but I hope the movie does get made. Couldn't put the book down!

[Spok]

“Instead, they have vehemently denounced this movie publicly as an offense against God, as poison of the faith.... Wow, those don’t sounds like typically Christian words.”

Maybe if they put a hood on Tom Hanks and sliced his head off with a bread knife on television the church would receive less criticism.

[OpusatFR]

“... Church is being “un-Christian” for not letting Ron Howard and Tom Hanks film there.”

Sorry, honey. You have been schooled in the realm of relativistic thought which makes “niceness” a virtue above truth.

[fetal heart beats by 21st day]

Do people need below average IQs to get jobs with the MSM?

[tbpiper]

where some sins are just too grave to be forgiven -- even if they're for art's sake.

Did you catch that? Art trumps holiness. If the sin, no matter how grave, is committed in the creation of 'art', it should be forgiven. Therefore, we get elephant dung Madonnas, urine drenched crucifixes, and homosexual screen Messiahs that we should just 'enjoy' and not obsess over.

[El Cid]

Eccleston also played a clip of movie critic Tom O’Neil of "In Touch Weekly," who was more overt about the Church acting in an un-Christian manner. "The Church could have just turned the other cheek and quietly said no, you can't use our churches. Instead, they have vehemently denounced this movie publicly as an offense against God, as poison of the faith.... Wow, those don't sounds like typically Christian words."

I haven't been following this recent brouhaha, but I suppose the tender sensibilities of Mr. O'Neil would have likewise been offended by these actions/words:

Matthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Matthew 23:33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Luke 19:45-46 And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought; Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.

I don't believe Mr. O'Neil would recognize a 'Christian manner' if it bit him in the posterior.
If the Vatican told the Da Vinci crowd to pound sand -- good for them...

[RC2]

She is a fool. Nothing says the Church has to used by those that will surely try to make it look bad. Interesting how they try and always try and make the good guy look bad. The Da Vinci Code was a fairy tale that they tried to say was real. It worked on some people.

[yldstrk]

How on earth would they know? Sudenly they are experts on Catholicism? Snort.

[RightWhale]

They ought to build a Hollywood set. They built the Titanic, they can build this.

[big'ol_freeper]

When you are taking flak you know you are over the target.

They lose. We win.

[Right Cal Gal]

And I’m sure if Hollywood went to Saudi Arabia to film “The Satanic Verses” and they basically chased the crew with scimitars, she’d be standing up for the producers.

Suuuuuuuuuuure she would.

[GWMcClintock]

Wow, those don’t sounds like typically Christian words.”

Excuse me, sir, but defaming the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and who He is, is not a very Christian ACT, and therefore is worthy of all the “un-Christian” things being said about it in the first place.

[kitkat]

***”a big problem in Rome, where some sins are just too grave to be forgiven — even if they’re for art’s sake.”***

These idiots are WRONG again. The Catholic church teaches that there is no sin too grave to be forgiven as long as there is true repentance.

[weegee]

where some sins are just too grave to be forgiven -- even if they're for art's sake."

Yeah, and The Eternal Jew was just another "work of art" too. Same with Piss Christ, paid for by the US chump taxpayer. The same taxpayer who is prohibited from being able to see tax dollars go to a momument to the 10 Commandments.

[weegee]

Well you have to remember that liberal bigot atheist Red Turner used to harass Catholic employees who came into work with Ash Wednesday ashes on their foreheads.

Anti-Catholic bigotry goes back to the founding of CNN.