Opus Dei Response to Director Ron Howard re 'The DaVinci Code'

Zenit News Agency ^ | May 15, 2006

[NYer]

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[SJackson]

I'm glad they're speaking out. A shame slander/libel laws don't apply to organizations, though I suppose it's best they don't.

[afnamvet]

Opie has gotten his head full of liberal Hollywierd mush.

[catholicfreeper]

"to tell someone not to go see the film is an act of militancy and militancy generates hatred and violence."

Wow, now the Catholic Church cant tell people not to go see a film without generating hatred and violence.? pleaseeeeeeeee

[Constantine XIII]

Nice

[Spirited]

Opie's the one who is generating hatred and violence.

[Revolting cat!]

because the freedom of financial profit seems to be in fact the only sacred freedom, the only one exempt from all responsibility

The entire key to this controversy right there! That is what you are defending, when you defend this trash.

[BenLurkin]

B U M P

[Accygirl]

How is Opus Dei whining about the Da Vinci Code any different from liberals whining about the Passion of the Christ? IMO, both groups look pretty silly...

[Bob Eimiller]

"to tell someone not to go see the film is an act of militancy and militancy generates hatred and violence."

Hey Opie... I'm NOT going to see your putrid film! Are you going to hate me....hit me??

oooh I'm so afraid!!

[maine-iac7]

Catholics are victims of an offense. The one offended cannot have his last right taken away, which is to express his point of view.

OK - got my flame retardant suit on - here goes.

Do you think those hundreds of thousands of people, in the history of the Church, who did dare to voice their opinions and became victims - dead - who had their "last right taken away," for their "offense" are looking down and saying: "hmmm - good thing marshmallowing people at the stake isn't allowed now."

I would like to have seen this level of condemnation over their pedophile priests - whom they have known about and protected for generations and only took some action after being forced too. (There were many "victims of an offense" - little victims - for decades and decades...and they were not protected. Only the perpetrators and the Church were protected, with the perps simply shifted to other, unsuspecting parishes.)

Two things: "People who live in glass houses..." and

"As ye have done until the least of these, my children...

[OpusatFR]

Nice strawman you raise there...

[FormerACLUmember]

Hollywood hates Christians, ESPECIALLY Catholics.

And Ron Howard is one amazingly arrogant little hypocrite is he not?

[olezip]

IMHO Opus Dei is right on, except they should include all Christians. All Christians are offended and insulted by blasphemy, slander, and greed. I am disgusted with Sony and the debased hollywood crowd.

[RKV]

"I would like to have seen this level of condemnation over their pedophile priests - whom they have known about and protected for generations and only took some action after being forced too. (There were many "victims of an offense" - little victims - for decades and decades...and they were not protected. Only the perpetrators and the Church were protected, with the perps simply shifted to other, unsuspecting parishes.)"

No flames from me. I wish others here would buy a clue.

[Bob Eimiller]

"hmmm - good thing marshmallowing people at the stake isn't allowed now.

Hmmmm Joan of Arc was burned at the stake by Catholics?..... The Salem witch trials...Catholics? 2000 years of history?

You, the guy in the flame retardant suit... take 5 minutes and list all the Catholic atrocities.

[FormerACLUmember]

Oh, and the book was HORRIBLE! Badly written and amazingly boring.

[billbears]

Don't include me in your grouping. I'm not offended by the movie as I know it is a F..I..C..T..I..O..N..A..L piece of work. I may even go see it. I sort of always liked those movies about 'hidden treasures'. I saw National Treasure and do you know to this day, I realize there's not a map on the back of the Declaration of Independence?

[CondorFlight]

'to deny the right to see the film is a fascist act," and also "to tell someone not to go see the film is an act of militancy and militancy generates hatred and violence."

Did anyone in Hollywood have the courage to say that about the right to see the Mohammed cartoons? No??

Any of the networks show the cartoons in defiance of a fascist attitude? No??

Anyone in Hollywood say that about Mel Gibson's film??
No??

Anybody in Hollywood care about free speech if there isn't money involved? No??