This from the Catholic Church:
Leading UK Catholics and members of Opus Dei have formed a group to respond to the negative impact the Da Vinci Code film is expected to bring.
The Da Vinci Code Response Group, which also includes a Benedictine abbot and two priests, has condemned Dan Brown’s book as “fiction trading as fact”.
BBC, Catholics form Da Vinci film team
Warning label on Bibles
Hardly believable from an organisation that deliberately promulgates what most of its priests and theologians know full well is a largely fictional account of the pre-literate religion of desert folk. But there’s more, according to the BBC’s story. The cult-like Catholic group, Opus Dei, has asked Sony Pictures to include a caption explaining the film is fiction
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