A response to The Da Vinci Code from the Prelature of Opus Dei in the United States.

Pierre Plantard spent his whole life claiming to be the ‘eminence grise’ of the esoteric world, when in fact he was only a mere “odd-job man” with a Criminal Record – who had spent time in prison during the 1950s – and who had fabricated a ‘conn

O primeiro concílio de Niceia teve lugar durante o reinado do imperador romano Constantino I (o primeiro imperador romano a aderir ao cristianismo) em 325. Foi a primeira conferência de bispos ecuménica (do Grego oikumene, “mundial”) da igreja católic

All this in a preliminary page under the title FACTS (as opposed to fiction). Considering the cavalier treatment in the novel of early Catholic history and the Opus Dei, one may raise some questions about the Priory of Sion, too. And rightly so.

These speculations form the basis of the 1982 book Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, although most historians do not subscribe to them. Later, elements of these theories were used by Dan Brown in his best-selling

My point, then, is this: Throughout the book Brown tries to “wow” the reader with apparently amazing true facts that he has pieced together into this novel that combines espionage, religion and conspiracy theory…but don’t take these “facts” too seriousl

But what seems increasingly clear (to cop a favorite phrase from the authors of ”Grail”) is that ”The Da Vinci Code,” like ”Holy Blood, Holy Grail,” is based on a notorious hoax.