The Vatican has appointed Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone to speak out against Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. From Reuters:
"A lot of novels do good but this book is rotten food … it does harm, not good," Bertone said in the 30-minute interview in the offices of the Vatican's doctrinal department.
"This book is a sack full of lies against the Church, against the real history of Christianity and against Christ himself," said Bertone, archbishop of northern Genoa…. "I would ask the author of this book and similar ones to be more respectful because freedom of expression has limits when it does not respect others," he said…
Bertone said he was stunned that Catholic bookstores, even those near the Vatican, were selling the book.
"It's impossible to pull the book off shelves of general bookstores … but certainly not selling it in Catholic bookstores would be a good first step," he said.
Link (via The Anomalist)
