If The Da Vinci Code has upset the Vatican this much then I really ought to read it. The pronouncements from the Church are suitably irony free-

“The book is everywhere,” Cardinal Bertone told Il Giornale newspaper, according to a report in The Times today. “There is a very real risk that many people who read it will believe that the fables it contains are true.”

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“We would like to remind them it is a work of fiction and not a reliable source of information.”

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