Da Vinci Code

[AG4]

Watched the movie and it's a nice piece of fiction. It would fool weak minded people into believing it is real. I found it hilarious to see all these study groups advertisments on how to debunk Da Vinci Code. Pera na naman...

The more they complained the more it became more popular...

From some mature catholics....

"The CBCP(Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines) has a review committee that reviews films, and the review was R(18). But even before this, like a month before, the Bishop's conference already had been talking about this and we were saying that the film is fiction; the novel is also fiction where it was taken from. And we're not calling for banning it, except that we were giving caution to those who will view the film to be mature enough to understand that it's only a movie.

-excerpt from channelnewsasia

“Christianity is exactly the same. The Church is still as it was before,” said Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz, former president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines.

“After so much international hype and so much local fuss, the ‘Da Vinci Code’ film is now seen as a non-issue. There was so much debate, worry and reservation over nothing,” he said Sunday.

-excerpt from Inq7.net

About the Manila city council decision vs the Catholic Church authority...
excerpt taken from pia.gov.ph "Da Vinci Code "a thriller, that's all," says archbishop"

TO a liberal-minded Church authority, the controversial The Da Vinci Code novel – now with a movie version – is nothing but an entertaining thriller.

Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz said he saw nothing wrong with either reading the novel or seeing its movie version. He said he had read the book and found no offensive material to the Church. “It was a novel, a fiction, a thriller,” he said, admitting that he was entertained too as he read the book in just a short time.

Contrary to his view, some so-called moralists in the Catholic Church sought for the banning of the movie in Philippine theaters. The Manila city council at presstime was reported to have passed a resolution seeking to prohibit the showing of the movie in city movie houses.

Cruz said he respected such move but called it anyway as “an overreaction.”

overreaction indeed.

excerpt taken from (Inquirer)High Ground : Relevance, not ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ is the real problem
by By William Esposo

PERHAPS nothing can be “more popish than the Pope” than when political figures try to assume the robes of the spiritual leader of the flock. This was what was communicated by the many eyebrows raised upon the City Council of Manila’s decision to ban the film “The Da Vinci Code” from showing in any of its movie houses.
Just who do the Manila city councilors think they are and just what exactly do they think they are doing?

But in the case of the Manila City Council, we cannot see a semblance of justification for their banning of “The Da Vinci Code” from all Manila theatres. How can anyone justify that ban when the Catholic Church itself and the Opus Dei wanted to allow the film’s exhibition?

The Catholic Church and the Opus Dei should be the ones to raise a howl since the film’s storyline (and the Dan Brown novel) had cast both the Opus Dei and the Vatican as sinister Catholic organizations.