Its all fun as a fiction novel, but the church is giving this way too much attention, it is making it far more popular. There are hundreds of books that use this plot, but when the church decides to go after it, suddenly, they become best sellers.
I’m not sure “the Church” is the one giving this so much attentiuon
a Vatican refusal to allow filming of a sacrilegious movie in a Church-owned (and thus, private) property is being hyped by the anti-Cathoic media and by the filmmakers looking to gin up publicity for being “censored” and “persecuted” by those rabid ignorant “christian” fundies