<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The producers of "The Da Vinci Code" must be on their hands and
> knees in thanks to the good people in the Holy Roman Catholic
> Church
> for providing them with about $100 million worth of free publicity
> right before their movie opens.
>
> Yes, Ron and Brian must be saying to themselves, there IS a God!
Cool. I just can't *wait* to see how the hoopla
works itself out over this film in still-predominantly
Catholic France. It's high drama, ready to manifest
itself and be laughed at as the low comedy it really is.
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>
>
> Cardinal urges legal action against Da Vinci Code
> Sun May 7, 2006 10:13am ET
> Email This Article | Print This Article [-] Text [+] By Philip
> Pullella
>
> VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - In the latest Vatican broadside
> against "The Da Vinci Code", a leading cardinal says Christians
> should respond to the book and film with legal action because both
> offend Christ and the Church he founded.
>
> Cardinal Francis Arinze, a Nigerian who was considered a candidate
> for pope last year, made his strong comments in a documentary
> called "The Da Vinci Code-A Masterful Deception."
>
> Arinze's appeal came some 10 days after another Vatican cardinal
> called for a boycott of the film. Both cardinals asserted that
other
> religions would never stand for offences against their beliefs and
> that Christians should get tough.
>
>
> "Christians must not just sit back and say it is enough for us to
> forgive and to forget," Arinze said in the documentary made by
Rome
> film maker Mario Biasetti for Rome Reports, a Catholic film agency
> specializing in religious affairs.
>
> "Sometimes it is our duty to do something practical. So it is not
I
> who will tell all Christians what to do but some know legal means
> which can be taken in order to get the other person to respect the
> rights of others," Arinze said.
>
> "This is one of the fundamental human rights: that we should be
> respected, our religious beliefs respected, and our founder Jesus
> Christ respected," he said, without elaborating on what legal
means
> he had in mind.
>
> A transcript of the documentary, due to be screened in Rome later
> this month just before the release of the film version of the best-
> selling book at the Cannes Film Festival, was made available to
> Reuters.
>
> The book, written by Dan Brown, has sold more than 40 million
> copies. Continued...
>
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