“their (the Vatican’s) turf”
Do you really think this is only an attack upon the Catholic Church’s discipline of celibacy and not all of Christendom and the self-control it preaches?
The class of 98 is exempt from having to use /s tags.
That said, I believe the Harvard Professor, Dan Brown, and most liberal theologians deny Christ, the Father and have particular disdain for the Holy Spirit. They serve a different king, a king of lies and deceit.
In relation of Roman Catholicism as well as the Orthodox, I as a Protestant am an inheritor of a faith that has been preserved over the centuries. Even today the Roman church serves as a shield against the attacks against the faith and the bible.
My comment was to emphasize the obvious Dan Brown believers response to this Vatican source. Rather than evaluate the content of the criticism, the Harvard professors and other theological liberal professors will dismiss this criticism because of the source rather than the content.
Actually, this is not an attack, just a silly statement. If taken in the secular world, it’s like someone saying that Augustus Caesar was Chinese based on a fragment written 400 years later that has Augustus saying “My middle kingdom...” and the rest being cut away.