Mary Magdalene and their child
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Posted on 04/30/2006 2:01:19 PM PDT by NYer
As you all know, it takes a lot to get the Vatican to address any given topic. But when it comes to the DaVinci Code, the trend's indicated that the designated point-man speaking for the Holy See is the Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Last year, in Rome's first counter-offensive, the former holder of CDF's #2 post, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone of Genoa, characterized the book as "rotten food," "a sack full of lies" and said of author Dan Brown that "Great writers did not behave this way." (Bertone also makes cameo appearances as a soccer commentator on Italian television, where he's just as colorful.)
As the 19 May release of the Code movie nears, Bertone's successor at the Palazzo del Sant'Uffizio, Archbishop Angelo Amato, has taken up the torch.
In speaking before a conference in the city, Reuters reported that Amato expressed his hope that "you all will boycott the film."
Amato said the book, written by Dan Brown, had been hugely successful around the world thanks in part to what he called "the extreme cultural poverty on the part of a good number of the Christian faithful."....
In his address to the group, Amato said Christians should be more willing "to reject lies and gratuitous defamation."He said that if "such lies and errors had been directed at the Koran or the Holocaust they would have justly provoked a world uprising."
He added: "Instead, if they are directed against the Church and Christians, they remain unpunished."
In the piece, Reuters Rome correspondent Phil Pulella doesn't exactly note the venue where Amato gave his remarks.
However, the archbishop was slated to address a 27-29 April conference in Rome on church communications.
The organizer of that gathering? Opus Dei, of course.
SVILUPPO: It's confirmed -- Amato gave the address in question to the above-mentioned conference, held at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross.
How on earth the crucial contextual detail was left out that a senior Vatican official called for a Code movie boycott at Opus Dei's Roman university beggars belief. Must be a conspiracy....
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In Dan Brown's defense, I believe that when he wrote it, he just intended for it to be a novel. However, he has since been coopted by the anti-Christian secularists and is doing their bidding in return for hundreds of millions of dollars.
This blasphemous icon is absurd, I am almost surprised that they are not making toy action figures to give with a kid's meal at Burger King like they do with "Star Wars."
Thanks for the post! Hopefully some of the other catholic freepers can share Fr. Nabil's message.
I met him after the service and told him the Gospel Armour was revved up and waiting . . . I do so love a good fight (must be all the Irish and Scottish Highland blood in the family . . . )
Well, that is true, as some Protestants, for instance believe that the New Testament preceded the Church. But, true Christians need to look at themselves as being at fault. Perhaps our teaching of the faith is not finiding its mark. Perhaps the fact that the satanic books of this kind are successfull is probably more our fault than the society's.
Good point ... if Western Civilisation were truly Christendom (as it ought to be), Dan Brown's publisher would have laughed him out of the office.
I think that is Mary, Joseph and Jesus. They are a symbol of the holy family. A symbol that is so important and seems to be lost in our society of "cultural poverty".
Christianity survived "Jesus Christ Super Star," Monty Python's ridicule of Jesus and the past 45 year-MYRIAD of Sleazywood's dsigusting version's of Jesus, replete with the standard Jesus and Mary Magdalene stuff.
Christianity has survived 2000 years and has 2 billion+ Christians on the planet, and growing.
Mel Gibson's tremendous Passion crossed the $1 billion mark a while ago and shows where Christian hearts lie. THIS sludge-for-a-movie is a pimple. It will be out in DVD within a month of opening.
It is saddening to all of us, but not worth shedding a single tear. Sleazywood shouldn't have that kind of power. It doesn't with me because I remember: Sleazywood is sewage-in/sewage out....and have been since the onslaught of the 60's.
Without the sewage of Sleazywood, Mel Gibson wouldn't have been moved to produce his Passion. God does work in mysterious (but always powerful) ways.
The link contains "mary_magdalene" and the name of the picture is "trinityicon.jpg". I don't think it's supposed to be the Holy Family.
http://www.catholic.com/library/cracking_da_vinci_code.asp
Bookmark this site. Also, Jimmy Akin has a field day with this drivel.
On another note, my sister's parish has a new, young and dynamic priest. On Easter, he had a Mass largely for the young (who really follow him). He put it very bluntly: we are Christians because we believe in Christ crucified and resurrected. If you don't believe that 100%--if you even entertain the possible plotline of Jesus being alive and marrying Mary Magdalene--leave the Church. Christ told us we are hot or we are cold; He will not accept lukewarm. My sister said kids congregated for an hour after that sermon talking about its implications for "The Code."
F
PS In the previews, the sight of Tom Hanks in this trash almost makes me physically sick. I admire him and yet he decided to get into this opus.
On Easter, five Catholics told me they could not put the book down but that it had no effect on their Faith whatsoever. I will leave my thoughts on that to myself!
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