Letters

The Da Vinci Code

Denis Dominguez

Contents - Jul 2006 - Buy a copy now Editorial: Strong Church leadership: new approach - Michael Gilchrist Salesian Missions: Church protects the victims of Timor violence - Br Michael Lynch News: The Church Around the World Evangelisation: Strong leadership: US bishop Robert Finn shows how - AD2000 Report New Vatican document emphasises centrality of marriage and family - AD2000 Report US Archbishop: how to reform the Liturgy Internet pornography: raising the alarm - Fr Stephen J. Rossetti AD2000 website Re-mythologising: Narnia - faith and fiction: The parallel world of C.S.Lewis - Msgr Peter J. Elliott Vatican concern at Islamic persecution of Christians - Zenit News Agency Letters: The Da Vinci Code - Denis Dominguez Letters: Pope Pius XII - Br Con Moloney CFC Letters: Anti-Catholicism - Paula Gartland Letters: Abortion and the Annunciation - Greg Dunne Letters: Contraception - Richard Congram Letters: Degrees of Homosexuality - Vincent Bemowski Letters: Hymn books wanted - A. van Tilburg Books: Hell and Other Destinations, by Piers Paul Read - Francis Phillips (reviewer) Books: Theology of the Body for Beginners, by Christopher West - Jacinta Cummins (reviewer) Books: Good News About Sex and Marriage, by Christopher West - Jacinta Cummins (reviewer) Books: Stimulating reading from Freedom Publishing Reflection: US bishop: making saints should be the goal of Catholic schools - Bishop Robert Finn

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Did Dan Brown pull off the biggest confidence trick in literary history, upstaging Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes?

Brown, jokingly, does not believe a word of his Da Vinci Code; nor did Hans Christian Andersen's confidence tricksters make a single thread of the invisible fabric they "spun". They were motivated by money, not truth.

Con artists such as Dan Brown, with little respect for their victim's "scotoma", parade bold-faced lies as truth, duping supposedly intelligent people into believing myth.

History proves the God-man, Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, died on the cross (blood and water flowing from His side), rose from the dead on the first Easter Sunday and ascended to heaven, as He will return.

The fact is that the bones of Jesus Christ are not on earth.

Jesus entrusted His Church, guided by the Holy Spirit, to write and choose the canonical list of books comprising the Holy Bible. This sacred library has held God's revealed, unchanging truth for nearly 2,000 years. Had the Bible "evolved" at the whim of continually changing man-made beliefs, it would have been forgotten and relegated to literary mediocrity a millennium ago.

Billions will continue cherishing the Bible as God's truth long after Dan Brown's mediocre and spurious gospel is thrown into the recycle bin. We will then see who is wearing the Emperor's clothes and who has been conned.

DENIS DOMINGUEZ
Thurgoona, NSW

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 19 No 6 (July 2006), p. 15