To err is nature, to rectify error is glory
Ron Howard’s film “The Da Vinci Code”, having Tom Hanks and Audrey Tatou as leading actors and which is in its final stage of postproduction, could moderate the offensive aspects reported by several cardinals and bishops from US, a country where this book presented the largest quantities being sold and where it is expected to have the biggest audience for the coming film.
Marc Carroggio, responsible for Opus Dei’s international press office, admitted to Zenit that this book, and now the film, “are becoming a kind of indirect advertising for us”. He also pointed out “fiction has its own rules and they should not be taken too seriously. But it disgusts me, as any other Christian, the frivolity of this book in regard to Jesus Christ’s life. Even if it results grotesque and sometimes also funny, at the end, it offers an hateful portrait of an institution, and it is confirmed, that those portraits could generate feelings of hate in persons who do not have critical resources”.
Many souls feel hurt for the disrespectful way of “The Da Vinci Code” to the Christian beliefs. Those persons have been invited to manifest their unconformity serenely and constructively by promoting or giving economical support to any initiative of education or cooperation promoted by Catholics in Africa. This kind of support is only a symbolic gesture, but it has also a positive and concrete significance.
Sony –Columbia still in time to contribute to concord, aspect of greatest importance in the actual context. They can demonstrate their compatibility with freedom of speech and respect to religious beliefs. They can confirm that respect is an act of freedom which comes from sensibility, but not that it is a consequence of censorship or threats.
To take this decision of conciliation, Sony-Columbia could make an important contribution to the cause of dialogue between the cultures, and would honor the respectful tradition of these undertakings.
CLEMENTE FERRER ROSELLÓ
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