It was described as a “phantasmagorical cocktail of inventions”, a “masonic plot” and a “ potpourri of lies”. Now a nervous Vatican is braced for the sequel to The Da Vinci Code and the return of its nemesis, Dan Brown.
Angels & Demons is the latest Brown thriller to be turned into a film, and already the Catholic Church is agonizing over how best to respond: to urge the faithful to boycott the film, or to ignore it? The Vatican and the Italian Catholic Church condemned The Da Vinci Code in its book and film version, but some church officials argued that the campaign against it merely boosted the public’s curiosity by giving it the “oxygen of publicity”.
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