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The Da Vinci Code, close-up of book cover

Decoding the Da Vinci Code

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  • Event Date: Sunday, May 7, 2006 at 2:00 pm
  • Location: Baxter Lecture Hall
  • Speaker: Tim Callahan

On May 19th, the film version of the wildly popular book by Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code (over 40 million copies in 25 languages sold), will be released to considerable fanfare and media hype. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, head of doctrinal orthodoxy for the Vatican, issued an official statement on behalf of the Catholic Church, calling the novel “a sack full of lies” and urging Christians not to read the book or see the movie. (more…)