A Catholic Website Promoting Angels & Demons

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I was searching for information about choosing a Catholic Bible, and I stumbled upon an article from a Catholic Website. What surprised me and irritated me was that there is an ad for Angels & Demons. I decided to find out what’s going on. So I sent them an Email asking them why they have an ad for that anti-Catholic movie. A few days has gone by and they have given me an answer, and they still have that ad up. I’m feeling confused, and I still feel that these people are doing the wrong thing by promoting Angels & Demons. Am I wrong to have these feelings? Here is their Email below.

(I didn’t leave their URL or name in the Email, because I’m not sure if I could post that. If someone lets me know that it’s okay to post such info, then I will post that information.)
Dear Martin,
We at ####.org, the Web site of the ##### Press, want to thank you so much for your considered feedback to our running of an advertisement connected to the soon-to-be-released movie “Angels & Demons.”

We weighed our decision on whether to allow advertising of this movie, and were moved by the views of the Vatican on the subject, which appeared within Catholic News Service stories on the subject last week that were posted on our site.

In an article that appeared on the ####.org site on May 5 (www.####.org/news/newsreport.aspx?id=1052), Archbishop Velasio De Paolis, president of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See, said the Vatican wasn’t worried about people of faith falling for the book and movie’s anti-Christian inventions. “The Vatican believes Christians are strong—inoculated by centuries of persecution and testimonials of faith," he said.

In an article that appeared on the ####.org site on May 8 (www.####.org/news/newsreport.aspx?id=1061), an editorial in the Vatican newspaper, which represents the thinking of the Holy See, called both the film and the book “modest” and “rather innocuous,” and a review said that viewers “must face two hours of harmless entertainment that has little to do with the genius and mystery of Christianity, without getting beyond the usual stereotypes.”

L’Osservatore Romano’s editor, Gian Maria Vian, was reported as saying that “Angels and Demons” posed no danger to the Church. “It only confirms the centuries-old fascination with our faith and our symbols,” he said.

We appreciate your thoughtful response to us, and hope you will continue to look to ###.org for future articles and features on issues breaking in the Church, including those associated with “Angels & Demons” and the movie review from the U.S. bishops’ Office of Film and Broadcasting that we will run on our site on Friday, May 15, the movie’s opening day.
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Peace and all good!
The Editors of ####.org
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almightyservant said:
I was searching for information about choosing a Catholic Bible, and I stumbled upon an article from a Catholic Website. What surprised me and irritated me was that there is an ad for Angels & Demons. I decided to find out what’s going on. So I sent them an Email asking them why they have an ad for that anti-Catholic movie. A few days has gone by and they have given me an answer, and they still have that ad up. I’m feeling confused, and I still feel that these people are doing the wrong thing by promoting Angels & Demons. Am I wrong to have these feelings? Here is their Email below.

(I didn’t leave their URL or name in the Email, because I’m not sure if I could post that. If someone lets me know that it’s okay to post such info, then I will post that information.)
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I see nothing wrong with informing CAF members of this website, name and all. I would love to know what it is. If more people can protest this type of thing, perhaps the voices would swell loudly enought to show we are tired of this c…p. Catholic website, in name only, it seems.
 
You can find the ad on this page (click here). The Email in its fullness below.
Dear Martin,
We at AmericanCatholic.org, the Web site of the Franciscans’ St. Anthony Messenger Press, want to thank you so much for your considered feedback to our running of an advertisement connected to the soon-to-be-released movie “Angels & Demons.”

We weighed our decision on whether to allow advertising of this movie, and were moved by the views of the Vatican on the subject, which appeared within Catholic News Service stories on the subject last week that were posted on our site.

In an article that appeared on the AmericanCatholic.org site on May 5 (www.AmericanCatholic.org/news/newsreport.aspx?id=1052), Archbishop Velasio De Paolis, president of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See, said the Vatican wasn’t worried about people of faith falling for the book and movie’s anti-Christian inventions. “The Vatican believes Christians are strong—inoculated by centuries of persecution and testimonials of faith," he said.

In an article that appeared on the AmericanCatholic.org site on May 8 (www.AmericanCatholic.org/news/newsreport.aspx?id=1061), an editorial in the Vatican newspaper, which represents the thinking of the Holy See, called both the film and the book “modest” and “rather innocuous,” and a review said that viewers “must face two hours of harmless entertainment that has little to do with the genius and mystery of Christianity, without getting beyond the usual stereotypes.”

L’Osservatore Romano’s editor, Gian Maria Vian, was reported as saying that “Angels and Demons” posed no danger to the Church. “It only confirms the centuries-old fascination with our faith and our symbols,” he said.

We appreciate your thoughtful response to us, and hope you will continue to look to AmericanCatholic.org for future articles and features on issues breaking in the Church, including those associated with “Angels & Demons” and the movie review from the U.S. bishops’ Office of Film and Broadcasting that we will run on our site on Friday, May 15, the movie’s opening day.

Peace and all good!
The Editors of AmericanCatholic.org
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St. Anthony Messenger Press
28 W. Liberty St.
Cincinnati, OH 45202
513-241-5615
www.AmericanCatholic.org
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-]Looks like they just took it off, and replaced it with a Sisters of Charity ad.:D/-]
Nevermind. I clicked the refresh button of my browser and it reappeared.:mad:
 
AmericanCatholic.org appears to be the website of the St. Anthony Messenger. It’s a Catholic publication, but I have always found it to be a little to the left of good orthodoxy! Just saying…

There was an article in the most recent edition of The Catholic World Report discussing Angels & Demons — the book, which commented that Brown makes so many historical and religous mistakes that it is hard to even list them all.
 
JimG said:
AmericanCatholic.org appears to be the website of the St. Anthony Messenger. It’s a Catholic publication, but I have always found it to be a little to the left of good orthodoxy! Just saying…

There was an article in the most recent edition of The Catholic World Report discussing Angels & Demons — the book, which commented that Brown makes so many historical and religous mistakes that it is hard to even list them all.
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Well it is fiction so it’s not really a mistake, the mistake would be in thinking it was a historical account…
 
Abbadon said:
Well it is fiction so it’s not really a mistake, the mistake would be in thinking it was a historical account…
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Yes. But apparently Brown prefaces his novels with a page entitled “Facts,” most of which are wrong, according the article I read.
 
JimG said:
Yes. But apparently Brown prefaces his novels with a page entitled “Facts,” most of which are wrong, according the article I read.
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Well I read the da vinchi code and angels and demons and the only fact he says is that there was an Illuminati and there was an Opius day. So far as I can remember. I looked for the exact preface but could not find it. But I think that perhaps as a result people assumed more things in the book were based on fact rather than the complete fiction they were ,CERN inventing the internet and antimatter bieng used for energy…

But as to this site advertising the movie, I believe the response they give is adequate, but if you personally don’t like it, don’t visit the site…
 
Abbadon said:
Well I read the da vinchi code and angels and demons and the only fact he says is that there was an Illuminati and there was an Opius day. So far as I can remember. I looked for the exact preface but could not find it. But I think that perhaps as a result people assumed more things in the book were based on fact rather than the complete fiction they were ,CERN inventing the internet and antimatter bieng used for energy…

But as to this site advertising the movie, I believe the response they give is adequate, but if you personally don’t like it, don’t visit the site…
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The website is another example of Catholics veering off the beaten path. They surely know the Church’s response to the Da Vinci Code. If Catholic websites publicize such controversial books/movies, in the next Presidential election the wannabe Catholics will vote Dan Brown into office.:rolleyes:
 
I’m not sure I understand what all the hoop - la is about Angels and Deamons - especially after reading the letter that the site sent. I mean do you really believe that people, especially Catholics are actually going to believe that this fiction book is true? If people can’t tell the difference between fact and fiction then there’s a problem with the people - not with the book or movie. BTW I read both of Dan Brown’s books which were later made into films and I must say I laughed during some of the first movie. We plan to see Angels and Demons later this week and I expect we’ll laugh just as hard as we did at the first movie. To believe that these books are completely truthful when they are fiction novels is to thing that Dungeons and Dragons is real!
 
**Millions of “catholics?” believed the lies of Obama and his henchmen.
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We are being destroyed from within by these “fictional” tales.

Why won’t Multi-Millionaires Ron Howard and Tom Hanks use their fame and notoriety to sell “fictional” tales about real life Muslim leaders like Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other terrorists who have already attacked and killed over 3000 innocent Americans and continue to vow to kill “The Great Satan” the US?

**Perhaps they are cowards! They are afraid and gutless, greedy people who prey on the weak and innocent to make millions of dollars from their garbage movies while ignoring the real evil that would kill them in a second if they made a movie about Islam instead of Catholicism!!!
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Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora Pro Nobis Peccatoribus!

mark
 
ryecroft said:
I’m not sure I understand what all the hoop - la is about Angels and Deamons - especially after reading the letter that the site sent. I mean do you really believe that people, especially Catholics are actually going to believe that this fiction book is true? If people can’t tell the difference between fact and fiction then there’s a problem with the people - not with the book or movie. BTW I read both of Dan Brown’s books which were later made into films and I must say I laughed during some of the first movie. We plan to see Angels and Demons later this week and I expect we’ll laugh just as hard as we did at the first movie. To believe that these books are completely truthful when they are fiction novels is to thing that Dungeons and Dragons is real!
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54% of those “especially catholics” voted for bo. And this isn’t a horror story they believed?
 
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