Tampa Book Buzz

new catholic website for da vinci code fans

The Book Standard reports that the Catholic Enquiry Office has set up a website to address issues brought up in the book The Da Vinci Code, particularly issues surrounding Mary Magdalene. I thoroughly enjoyed The Da Vinci Code — and Angels and Demons, although it followed the same basic plot with several substitutions — but the controversy it inspired baffled me. It’s a work of fiction, people. Dan Brown took snippets of truth and nuggets of controversial theory and wove them together with a lot of ideas he created in his imagination and created a very entertaining, but fictional, book.

I looked at this new website and plan on going back and reading some of the articles when I have more time. About 90% or so of the site is about Mary Magdalene, with a couple of links addressing other religious/mystical issues also mentioned in the book. I think I might reread The Da Vinci Code before going through this site.