February 21st Comments (44) / RSS Post Filed under Mortification, On Opus Dei, Recommended Posts, The Church, The Da Vinci Code

After reading the book and seeing the movie trailer, I think it’s safe to say that this – “oh yeah, the guys who use cilices and whip themselves bloody” Рwill be the impression of Opus Dei that most people take away from The Da Vinci Code. When all is said and done, what sticks [...]

January 27th Comments (11) / RSS Post Filed under Life of Jesus Christ, Recommended Posts, The Church, The Da Vinci Code

I trust that Pope Benedict XVI has not bothered to read The Da Vinci Code, but there are moments in this new encyclical, Deus caritas est, when it sounds as if he were writing a rebuttal to some of the nutty ideas about sex and Christianity that are thrown around in the novel. (Surely, Deus [...]

January 24th Comments (117) / RSS Post Filed under The Church, The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code gives the impression of being hostile to Catholicism, yet Dan Brown has made the novel’s most anti-Catholic character the villain. Leigh Teabing’s hatred for the Church is, in fact, the motor that drives the whole story. He is unwilling to accept the Priory of Sion’s live-and-let-live attitude toward the Catholic Church. [...]

January 24th Comments (5) / RSS Post Filed under On Opus Dei, Recommended Posts, The Church, The Da Vinci Code

Despite its apparent hostility to Roman Catholicism, in the long run, The Da Vinci Code will, I suspect, end up doing much more good than harm, both for the Church and for Opus Dei. Of course, it is a great pity that a book of negligible literary value which seems to call into question the [...]