World News Now (ABC) snippet - 2005-03-17

Name: World News Now (ABC) snippet - 2005-03-17
Uploaded: 2025-07-17
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Uploaded: 2025-07-17

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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] You'll get a lot.

[0:01] [Music]

[0:12] You probably just noticed the Da Vinci

[0:14] Code there in the top five. Still number

[0:16] five. And after two years, nothing's

[0:17] been able to stop the juggernaut that is

[0:19] the Da Vinci Code. The wildly popular

[0:22] novel has spawned everything from tours

[0:24] to other books to help decode it. And as

[0:26] they say, as it's soon to be a major

[0:28] motion picture. Tom Hanks, A-listister,

[0:30] taking uh the lead spot there. Now, the

[0:32] Vatican is stepping up its campaign

[0:34] against the Da Vinci Code, and ABC's

[0:36] David Wright tells us one of Italy's

[0:38] most prominent cardinals is leading the

[0:40] fight.

[0:41] The Da Vinci Code is so popular, there

[0:44] are now walking tours in Rome of sites

[0:46] featured in Dan Brown's books.

[0:49] The church is concerned that readers of

[0:52] this work of fiction are taking it as

[0:54] gospel. In Genoa, it was standing room

[0:57] only. As Cardinal Berton called the Da

[0:59] Vinci Code a sack full of lies against

[1:02] the church.

[1:04] >> It is stuffed, he said, with serious

[1:06] historical inaccuracies. The cardinal

[1:09] objects to the central theme of this

[1:11] Catholic murder mystery that Jesus and

[1:13] Mary Magdalene were secretly married and

[1:15] had a child. The cardinal citing the

[1:18] Bible calls that a gross falsehood.

[1:20] Christians are taught that Jesus was

[1:22] never married. Some church conservatives

[1:25] also dispute the book's portrayal of the

[1:27] Catholic organization Opus Day as a

[1:29] group of murderous fanatics.

[1:31] >> The Da Vinci Code is a farce. I mean,

[1:34] you would learn more about genuine

[1:36] history and theology by watching

[1:38] Montipython and the Holy Grail.

[1:40] >> The Da Vinc