Da Vinci Code" -- a Blessing for Opus Dei?

[WanderAimlessly]

An interesting take on the book and upcomming movie:

Da Vinci Code" – a Blessing for Opus Dei?
Use the Lemon to Make Lemonade, Says Spokesman
ROME, JAN. 12, 2006 (Zenit.org).- The forthcoming film “The Da Vinci Code” might not be so bad for Opus Dei after all.

For the first time, in this interview, a representative of the “evil one of the film” – the Opus Dei prelature – offers his view on this production, which Sony-Columbia will release in May.

Marc Carroggio, who oversees Opus Dei’s relationship with the international media, told ZENIT that interest about the book and the film “is turning out to be a sort of indirect publicity for us.”

Carroggio added that, given the existence of the movie, there will be no fight against anyone. An effort is being made to take advantage of the great interest aroused to propose the figure of Jesus Christ, he stressed.

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[BarbaraTherese]

Hi there Wander Aimlessly…an interesting tag in the light of the excellent Posts you often submit!

I read this article in Zenit, and I thought it was good to read about the Da Vinci Code with a sensible attitude revealed. I also thought “Use the lemon to make lemonade” was an excellent expression and a new one to me…but a positive personal attitude to adopt in many matters.

I was given the Da Vinci Code in a Christmas gift with the assurance that it was an excellent read as a work of fiction. I am about 2/3 through it and I am bored with every Chapter beginning a new crisis in the story. As a novel I thought it was exceptionally well researched revealing an aweful lot of knowledge on many matters that after a while became boring…in that it is entirely predictable that every new Chapter will reveal a new crisis. I thought the author could have been as an author a little more imaginative in the light of his knowledge of many subjects.

I thought the Zenit interview very interesting and revealing a more enlightened attitude than near hysteria that has been displayed at times from some quarters. It is after all a complete work of fiction…and though as Catholics its theme is very sensitive to us, it can be turned to our advantage as the Zenit article indicated.

Would I recommend it as a good read…not particularly!

Regards Barb