More Da Vinci Dishonesty - Ron Howard snuck a camera into the Vatican: Report

[vocatio]

That is wonderful. I just wonder how many people are on the other side of this, driven away from the Church, the last straw type of thing…

Yeah, I see your point. But in dealing with issues like this I try to remember Joseph, with the coat of many colors. He brother’s begged him for forgiveness but he said that they have meant it for evil and God meant it for good. We must see things this way if we are to persevere trials. It’s like the elections issue. The world hasn’t suddenly come to an end. WE must keep on keeping on. Fight the good fight. Finish the race as Paul says.

I certainly don’t mean this in some shallow minded sense though.

PAX

 

[yellowbicycle]

Meh, taht silly Dan B rown book was nothing but a rip-off of Holy Blood, Holy Grail written twenty years earlier, which was in itself a rip-off of some other book, whose name I unfortunately can’t recall.
DaVinci code was, without exception, the crappiest book I ever read.
I make this promise to all of you out there. When, with my dying breath I am trying to tell you ALL of the horrible secrets of the Catholic Church, I’ll do it in much less ridiculous ways. I swear, if there was ONE more puzzle box mentioned in that book…

 

[adstrinity]

To that poster, I would add that we would appreciate some straight and honest thinking and line of discussion, please. Why ask a question “was he told not to bring a camera into the Vatican?” It’s a red herring. The astute thinker with an honest look at the truth would not ask such a thing in light of Howard’s statement that he “snuck a camera into the Vatican.”

The article alludes to, or at least I understood, that it is because of the DaVinci Code he was banned from recording any Holy Building there. I don’t know what that means. I don’t know if this is fully accurate and responsible.

Apparently a very small camera was used (hat? pen? ring?) to get the footage.

…Now we must all go to see this movie to see what was taken…

 

[jfhh]

Why are you all focusing on one book. he’s written four books. Two have nothing to do with religion. A fifth is coming that I don’t know anything about.

 

[Digitonomy]

Apparently a very small camera was used (hat? pen? ring?) to get the footage.

…Now we must all go to see this movie to see what was taken…

I agree with the earlier poster that it would be difficult to directly use the footage from such a small camera on a high-def motion picture. More likely it was used as a basis for constructing the set or tweaking the lighting, or for creating a CGI scene.

 

[adstrinity]

I agree with the earlier poster that it would be difficult to directly use the footage from such a small camera on a high-def motion picture. More likely it was used as a basis for constructing the set or tweaking the lighting, or for creating a CGI scene.

Yeah. I know TMC in post 31 made a good point, too.

…There’s always the possibility that this film can inspire pepole to take holidays/vacations at the Vatican…

 

[distracted]

…Now we must all go to see this movie to see what was taken…

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BAD ADVICE!!***

We should all boycott the movie…

and anything else that is anti-Catholic

getting illicit footage is the least of our problems… (besides, How can you expect a non-Catholic [probably non-Christian altogether…] to have much reverence? )

 

[jfhh]

Please inform us what is anti-Catholic about this Dan Brown book.

I can affirm that Digital Fortress by Dan Brown is not anti-Catholic in any way shape or form. Religion is not even mentioned (or if it was it was so incidental that I don’t remember it). Ditto for his book Deception Point. I am very disappointed in the Vatican on this one. It seems that they decided to not grant permission EVEN WITHOUT READING THE SCRIPT! Imagine if the script had been for Digital Fortress or Deception Point (they are military/espionage thrillers with no religious motif at all) … I guess they wouldn’t need any churches to film those two movies, but I think you get my point.

christianpost.com/article/20081211/-da-vinci-code-prequel-may-include-church-shots-despite-ban.htm

“Usually we read the script but in this case it wasn’t necessary,” said Monsignor Marco Fibbi, a spokesman for the diocese of Rome, earlier this year. “Just the name Dan Brown was enough.”

Maybe it wasn’t the Vatican per se, but the vicariate ruler of the diocese of Rome (the Pope doesn’t micromanage the diocese; that responsibility is handed off to a vicariate ruler whose official title I forget right now)

 

[jfhh]

(besides, How can you expect a non-Catholic [probably non-Christian altogether…] to have much reverence? )

The Babylon 5 series was created by an atheist yet it is one of the most spiritually enriching series on television. There are even Catholic priests and monks in the series. One episode focuses on redemption and Catholic suffering in union with Jesus’ agony in the garden. A more recent anthology episode actually affirms the reality of demons (and IIRC, an exorcist helps out)

 

[CatholicCid]

Please inform us what is anti-Catholic about this Dan Brown book.

The basis of the book is attacking the Church for suppressing a ‘great group of genius and scientists’ from the Middle Ages that has survived to today.
Several high ranking Church officials are brutally murdered as the basis.
And in reality, the basis of the book basically has the Pope going against Church teaching and practice.

I actually found and read this book thinking my Priest recommended it, so I was going in with high expectations (this was before the whole DaVinci Code rabbling).

As a detective story, it was ok… The ending had no connection with the story line though and seems to go completely out of its way to mock the Pope and show his disregarding Church teaching in the novel.

Unless the script completely rewrote the actual ending of the book, there’d be no need to read the script.