ROME (CNS): Catholics should consider boycotting the film The Da Vinci Code as one way to let the world know the story offends and defames the Church, said secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop Angelo Amato said.
If the kind of “slander, offences and errors” contained in Dan Brown’s bestselling book and the film based on it had been written about “the Koran or the Shoah (the Holocaust), they rightly would have provoked a worldwide uprising”, the archbishop told Catholic communications directors.
The archbishop spoke on April 28 at a Rome conference for Church communications personnel sponsored by the Opus Dei-run University of the Holy Cross.
Speaking about The Da Vinci Code, Archbishop Amato said, “Christians should be more sensitive to rejecting lies and gratuitous defamation.”
