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Title: Top Cardinal Blasts 'Da Vinci Code' as 'Cheap Lies'
Source: Netscape News
URL Source: http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news ... 2&dt=20050315130200&w=RTR&covi
Published: Mar 15, 2005
Author: Reuters
Post Date: 2005-03-15 17:59:13 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
Keywords: Cardinal, Blasts, Cheap
Views: 11313
Comments: 568

Top Cardinal Blasts 'Da Vinci Code' as 'Cheap Lies'

ROME (Reuters) - A top Catholic cardinal has blasted "The Da Vinci Code" as a "gross and absurd" distortion of history and said Catholic bookstores should take the bestseller off their shelves because it is full of "cheap lies."

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, in an interview with the Milan newspaper Il Giornale, became the highest ranking Italian Churchman to speak out against the book, an international blockbuster that has sold millions of copies.

"(It) aims to discredit the Church and its history through gross and absurd manipulations," Bertone, the archbishop of the northern Italian city of Genoa and a close friend of Pope John Paul told the paper in its Monday edition.

"This seems like a throwback to the old anti-clerical pamphlets of the 1800s," he said.

The central claim of the book, written by American Dan Brown, is that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had children. The Bible says Jesus never married, was crucified and rose from the dead.

Bertone's comments were significant because until the Pope named him archbishop of Genoa in 2003 he was for years the number two man at the Vatican's most powerful department - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

"You can find that book everywhere and the risk is that many people who read it believe that those fairy tales are real," he said. "I think I have the responsibility to clear things up to unmask the cheap lies contained in books like that."

HOLY GRAIL

A central storyline of the book is that the Holy Grail is not the cup which Christ is said to have used at the Last Supper but really the bloodline descended from Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Bertone calls this idea "a perversion."

Bertone is so incensed about the novel that he will be the key speaker at a roundtable in Genoa Wednesday night attempting to dismantle the book, which also accuses the Church of covering up the female role in Christianity.

"I will try to clear things up and help form consciences," the cardinal said.

"I think that when faced with affirmations that are so shameful and unfounded, readers who have even a minimum of basic (Christian) formation should react," he said.

He said it was "sad" that even Catholic bookstores were selling The Da Vinci Code "for purely economic reasons."

One bookstore selling "The Da Vinci Code" is the one in the Gemelli Hospital, a Catholic institution where the Pope spent a total of 28 days in two stints in February and March.

In the interview, Bertone firmly rejected the book's claim that the feminine role in Christianity had been suppressed.

"This is one of the most vulgar of inventions. The feminine element is present in all the Gospels," Bertone said.

Bertone also strongly defended Opus Dei, the conservative Church organization that the book depicts as a ruthless, Machiavellian group that resorts even to murder in its attempt to keep the Church's secrets hidden.

The novel is going to reach an even wider audience next year with the release of a film based on the book staring Tom Hanks.

© Copyright Reuters Ltd. All rights reserved. The information contained In this news report may not be published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of Reuters Ltd.

03/15/2005 13:02 RTR

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#450. To: Flintlock (#445)

Still good at avoiding the pointed questions, aren't ya?

Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-03-17   17:47:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#451. To: Samuel Gray (#432)

Besides, I'm thin on top and that 666 birthmark thing would be a bit overt and tend to scare the Fundies.

Well, if you would just stop writing it in Disappearing Ink......

Sheesh! Do I have to remind you of EVERYTHING???

;0)

CAPPSMADNESS  posted on  2005-03-17   17:47:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#452. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#451)

Hey, I'm just the Adversary. "HE" got the Omni stuff. I can only be one place at at time and handle so many tasks at once. You know how hard it is to get truly good demonic minions these days?

Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-03-17   17:49:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#453. To: Samuel Gray (#450)

Still good at avoiding the pointed questions, aren't ya?

Just "pointed" heads ... pin-head !

noone222  posted on  2005-03-17   17:49:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#454. To: Don (#447)

I'm repentant ... really I am ... I know the end is nigh ... or neigh.

2Trievers  posted on  2005-03-17   17:49:38 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#455. To: Samuel Gray (#434)

agree, I was referring to the weird practice of bozoing folks that "talk dirty".

Now don't make me sic Mr. Thread Pirate on you!

ARRRRRGH!

CAPPSMADNESS  posted on  2005-03-17   17:49:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#456. To: 2Trievers (#454)

Actually, I'm a breast man myself. I haven't been the same since my mother breast-fed me. She ruined my life.

Don  posted on  2005-03-17   17:51:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#457. To: noone222 (#453)

You're really TLBShow, aren't you?

Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-03-17   17:52:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#458. To: Don (#456)

I can safely say that is way more information than I ever needed to know about you, Don.

Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-03-17   17:54:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#459. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#455)

This thread needs a good highjacking.

Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-03-17   17:55:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#460. To: 2Trievers (#444)

allowing yourself to be trapped by the narrow mythology set forth in one, say, pseudo holy book's version of life, of flesh, of truth.

But that is my choice, and one I will never regret. But trying to explain my faith to those without faith is not worth the effort and hardly worth the fight.

What you see as Fable, I see as Firm Ground. What you see as Fact, I see as the ever changing will of man.

And so forth and so on.

CAPPSMADNESS  posted on  2005-03-17   17:55:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#461. To: Samuel Gray (#458)

Then can I count on no more questions?

Don  posted on  2005-03-17   17:55:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#462. To: All (#461)

And, no more dumb statements from you on Christianity?

Don  posted on  2005-03-17   17:55:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#463. To: Don (#461)

Then can I count on no more questions?

Probably not. This thread is undergoing a form of "evolution."

Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-03-17   17:56:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#464. To: Samuel Gray (#463)

Ok, then. What will be will be.

Don  posted on  2005-03-17   17:57:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#465. To: Don (#462)

And, no more dumb statements from you on Christianity?

If you'll shut up about "scientists killing the world"...

Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-03-17   17:57:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#466. To: Samuel Gray (#450)

Still good at avoiding the pointed questions, aren't ya?

And I see you're still a nosy little turd.

Flintlock  posted on  2005-03-17   17:58:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#467. To: Samuel Gray, justlurking, Thread Pirate (#459)

This thread needs a good highjacking.

then I shall summon the Thread Pirates....

CAPPSMADNESS  posted on  2005-03-17   17:58:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#468. To: Samuel Gray (#465)

Well, that would be a little hard. That stuff is in the daily news.

Don  posted on  2005-03-17   17:58:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#469. To: Don (#456)

One of my fave un-shopped gifs.

2Trievers  posted on  2005-03-17   17:58:33 ET  (2 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#470. To: 2Trievers (#469)

Ok, that kid will grow up a wise man.

Don  posted on  2005-03-17   18:00:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#471. To: Flintlock (#466)

Baby we could talk all night, but that ain't gettin us nowhere.

Write me back when you get that Costa Rican IP address. Maybe my opinion of you will improve. It's got nowhere to go but up.

Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-03-17   18:02:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#472. To: Don (#468)

Well, that would be a little hard. That stuff is in the daily news.

Then, I'm sorry, all bets are off. :)

Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-03-17   18:03:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#473. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#467)

This thread needs a good highjacking.

then I shall summon the Thread Pirates....

Now why would you want to do that may I ask?

Zipporah  posted on  2005-03-17   18:04:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#474. To: Samuel Gray, All (#472)

Folks, it is not safe to go back into the water.

Don  posted on  2005-03-17   18:05:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#475. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#460)

No harm. No foul.

Whenever the Lamb wants to grill, he has to get starter fluid from Mary. I carry my own butane and matches.

2Trievers  posted on  2005-03-17   18:05:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#476. To: Don (#474)

Folks, it is not safe to go back into the water.

You got nothin to fear, right? Your guy walked on it, IIRC.

Or if the storms get frenzied...Peace, be still!

Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-03-17   18:07:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#477. To: 2Trievers (#475)

Whenever the Lamb wants to grill,

Now, see, beef I can handle rare, but "blood of the Lamb?" No thanks. well done. Besides, if you get washed in it, you can't get it outta yer clothes.

Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-03-17   18:08:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#478. To: CAPPSMADNESS, Dakmar, Crack Monkey, Tracie21230 (#467)

If by that (Thread Pirates) you were reffering to thread hijackers:

On behalf of Dakmar, Crack Monkey and myself, we're collectively miffed that our pirating skills haven't been given proper credit here.

OTOH, if you intended to type "Butt Pirates"

Trace.. See above.

Jhoffa_  posted on  2005-03-17   18:10:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#479. To: Samuel Gray (#477)

Shall we talk stain removal?

.....................................I really gotta go.

2Trievers  posted on  2005-03-17   18:10:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#480. To: Don (#474)

Folks, it is not safe to go back into the water.

2Trievers  posted on  2005-03-17   18:14:29 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#481. To: Samuel Gray (#471)

Maybe my opinion of you will improve.

like I care.

Guys like you are dime a dozen.

Flintlock  posted on  2005-03-17   18:17:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#482. To: Flintlock (#481)

Samuel Gray

Maybe my opinion of you will improve.

You'll die of old age before he forms an opinion of his own !

noone222  posted on  2005-03-17   18:22:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#483. To: Samuel Gray (#476)

You have the main idea.

Don  posted on  2005-03-17   18:23:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#484. To: 2Trievers (#480)

Your shark is gonna get made into sharkfin soup. Hope it isn't a pet.

Don  posted on  2005-03-17   18:24:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#485. To: Flintlock (#481)

Guys like you are dime a dozen.

Write me back when you can say it 'en Espanol' and you're yukking it up in tropical climes, watching the coming destruction of the republic from the safety of a beach chair.

Rubber, meet road. Otherwise, you're the guy in the "buy one, get 11 free" bin.

Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-03-17   18:24:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#486. To: Samuel Gray (#485)

Write me back when you can say it 'en Espanol'

Chinga tu ... puto

noone222  posted on  2005-03-17   18:28:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#487. To: Don (#484)

Your shark is gonna get made into sharkfin soup. Hope it isn't a pet.

Mmmmmm, cartilage.

Dakmar  posted on  2005-03-17   18:40:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#488. To: Jhoffa_ (#478)

On behalf of Dakmar, Crack Monkey and myself, we're collectively miffed that our pirating skills haven't been given proper credit here

I ain't no pirate, I'm more like the guy lays his head on the railroad tracks hoping for a grand de-railment.

Dakmar  posted on  2005-03-17   18:43:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#489. To: noone222 (#486)

Chinga tu ... puto

or better yet.

Maricon sin verguenza

Flintlock  posted on  2005-03-17   18:48:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#490. To: Jhoffa_ (#478)

On behalf of Dakmar, Crack Monkey and myself, we're collectively miffed that our pirating skills haven't been given proper credit here

Maybe we should start a ping list???

CAPPSMADNESS  posted on  2005-03-17   19:11:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  



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