[Publius6961]

Free advice to the Vatican:

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.

[Cap'n Crunch]

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.

[mimaw]

I'd say the actions of Fr. Jenkins @ Notre Dame and other Catholic institutions that honor baby killers with a podium to speak from as well as so called Catholics who vote for them and the Church's refusal to publicly discipline these people are undermining the Catholic church far more than anything Dan Brown could write.

[sazerac]

Our priest urged the parents to allow the teens to go see the R-rated Exorcist. That was a movie the church approved of.

[gondramB]

Its a prequel and its far more clear from reading it that its fiction than was true for the Davinci Code. Its also far more outrageous and negative toward the church.

So its a different question for the Davinci Code: with that book people could believe it was true. This is a question of whether the church should respond to fictional books that criticize the church.

I don;t see the point in that - its different than clarifying facts -clarifying facts was appropriate after Davinci Code.

[nina0113]

The film is to be released in Italy on May 13...

There must have been a problem in post-production - usually the Spring antiChristian movie comes out in time for Holy Week.

[Revolting cat!]

It’s pulp trash read by semi-literates! The category used to be called ‘penny dreadfuls’. It’s mainstream now, because ‘mainstream’ is in the gutter.

[Revolting cat!]

Fact: (the first word in the Dan Brown book, I am told): Ron Howard is dying of AIDS and his mother is a crack whore.

Fact: Ron Howard's next epic (if he lives long enough to complete it) will be based on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

The sequel to that epic will be the first film ever to tell the truth about Third Reich, where its leaders will be portrayed as true heroes that they were, and the allies as evil men who brought half the world under Comminist tyranny.

But then, "it's fiction".

[Salvation]

Good for the Vatican.