Is The Da Vinci Code Anti-Catholic?
Excerpted from De-Coding Da Vinci: The Facts Behind the Fiction of The Da Vinci Code with permission of Our Sunday Visitor. In a way, Roman Catholics reading The Da Vinci Code should be flattered. After all, according to Dan Brown’s vision of past and present, the only embodiment of Christianity the world has seen is the Roman Catholic Church. This is, of course, not quite the case. For example, much of the theological action in question–the formation of the Canon, the discussions of Jesus’ human and divine nature–was centered not in the West, but in the East, and involved mostly Eastern bishops. Eastern Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches embody that ancient tradition just as deeply as the Roman Catholic Church does. And then, of course, there are the Christian churches that emerged in the wake of the Reformation, which despite deep differences with Catholicism and Orthodoxy on issues ranging from justification and salvation to sacraments, still continued to affirm the traditiona
