Fr. Joseph Carola, SJ has an article entitled "Da Vinci Disarmed". It's rather long but a good read. I think the Church is not upset at the book as much as they are by it's popularity. They are afraid the ideas in the book may be either representative of what people already believe about the Catholic Church or that those ideas might take hold. Both are not unreasonable fears as a recent poll stated that 3/4 of Britons believed the wild alegations in the book as fact. This will pass but only after the book fades into the background like all other pop culture phenomenons.
Quarantine 2008 has ended
Fair warning: possibly graphic post and not for the squeamish. So it all started Friday night. Wife and I had a long day (as usual) and had finally finished with dishes, laundry and the rest of the normal daily grind. The baby had been fussy most of the day and had spit up here and there. Mostly we thought it had been switching from formula to milk which can sometimes cause this type of thing. By the time kid #4 rolls around you tend to let these things slide. If this were #1 we'd have called in a medivac at the first sign of vomiting in a 1 year old. He finally calmed down and we got him off to sleep. We watched a bit of The Wire and retired (very) late. About 10 minutes later #2 wakes up crying complaining of a stomach ache. I ask if he has to go to the bathroom and he says no, it's not that. His stomach really hurts. OK, into my bed and I'll get the heating pad for a bit. We get him settled and he calms down. Knowing that he tends towards the dramatic, I s...
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