Posted on 04/08/2009 7:54:05 AM PDT by presidio9
It was described as a phantasmagorical cocktail of inventions, a masonic plot and a pot pourri of lies. Now a nervous Vatican is braced for the sequel to The Da Vinci Code and the return of its nemesis, Dan Brown.
Angels & Demonsis the latest Brown thriller to be turned into a film, and already the Catholic Church is agonising over how best to respond: to urge the faithful to boycott the film, or to ignore it? The Vatican and the Italian Catholic Church condemned The Da Vinci Codein its book and film version, but some church officials argued that the campaign against it merely boosted the publics curiosity by giving it the oxygen of publicity.
The plot ofAngels & Demonshas all the ingredients to worry the cardinals: a sinister elite known as the Illuminati wants to destroy the Vatican using an antimatter bomb made with material stolen from the physics experiment at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland.
The film is to be released in Italy on May 13 and in Britain a day later, as Pope Benedict XVI finishes his tour of the Holy Land. A strong reaction is more likely because the antiDa Vinci campaign was led by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, then Archbishop of Genoa and now the Vaticans Secretary of State and as such the Popes right-hand man. Gianni Gennari, a leading theologian and a columnist for Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian bishops, called on Catholics to boycott Angels & Demons, accusing the film-makers of exploiting the Church to swell takings at the box office. He said the film was part of a plot to undermine the credibility of the Church.
Archbishop Velasio De Paolis,
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1) She's American (Indian descent). My error in identifying her as Arab.
2) Scar is from surgery consequent to an auto accident at age 14.
I’m not sure “the Church” is the one giving this so much attentiuon
a Vatican refusal to allow filming of a sacrilegious movie in a Church-owned (and thus, private) property is being hyped by the anti-Cathoic media and by the filmmakers looking to gin up publicity for being “censored” and “persecuted” by those rabid ignorant “christian” fundies
Dan Brown is a hack, his books stink, movies made from his books blow, 6 months after he’s dead nobody will remember who he was, and there’s no such thing as bad publicity. So keeping all those things in mind the best path for the Church is to ignore him completely.
At least, let’s hope Hanks changed his hair style.
I was just about to say - this is the PREQUEL to the “Da Vinci Code.” And it is completely formulaic to Da Vinci. In fact, Brown’s books are so formulaic, that there’s an entertaining website called “write your own Dan Brown novel.”
sigh - I wish they’d be more concerned with the real threat of pro-abortion “catholic” politicians, of Obama’s intention to force catholic hospitals to close.
They seem more afraid of a less-than-talented writer of fiction.
Are you saying that the Catholic church or its officials never burned books?
It's a book. The same as a movie. 50 million other things to complain/protest about other than a fictional book ...
I'll order my copy when it's available, read it, then place it on my bookshelf with the rest of my books that are FICTION.
Nervous? Hardly! Truth is empowering.
um... I didn’t notice her arm.... at all...
The Church isn’t harmed by it and so part of me thinks it’s much ado about nothing. Your comment, at least “why the fuss” could be said about the outrage that accompanied “The Last Temptation of Christ,” “Religulous (sp?)” and practically any movie/TV show about conservatives.
In fact, why comment on or correct the news at all? So what if the MSM lies about abortion or gun control or anything in which you believe. No “mere mortal” can harm the truth, so why worry about?
Imagine someone made a movie about this site that purports all kinds of crazy stuff in a fashion that your typical moron would believe. Would Free Republic be harmed? No. However, would there be an element of people on this board who would feel obliged to attack it, poke holes in it, etc? Absolutely.
I also think that it’s part of a marketing campaign for a movie.
Ignore works of fiction, by whatever name they are presented.
Nothing hypes works of fiction more than having a serious group or organization openly opposing it.
Just sayin.
Personally I have not read the book. And I would not.
The real shame here I think is that from the description of the book, that Jesus had sexual relations with blah..blah..blah is disgusting.
That Christians would read this blasphemous book or pay for it is the real shame.
Nevertheless, why even buy the trash?
Padma Lakschmi is Indian NOT Arab and she is no longer married to Rushdie.
True, but it’s presented as based on deep historical research. Most people I meet who have read them, think all the history in them is completely accurate.
Do you think "24" is an anti-American show because it has portrayed a president as corrupt? Get a grip.
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