Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code is essentially an expression of man’s longing for a different world. The plot revolves round the quest for the Holy Grail which in the end turns out to be nothing. “The End of Days” when the Grail was supposed to be revealed turns out to be nothing more than “a legend of paranoid minds,” according to a character in the novel. It is the mystery of life and our capacity for wonderment that is the real Holy Grail, the character explains. The novel is primarily a thriller. But the author is a highly knowledgeable person who makes ample and effective use of his knowledge about the Catholic Church and its institutions. The Church has reasons to be irate with Dan Brown because the novel undermines one of the most fundamental doctrines of Catholicism: that Jesus was a bachelor. Mary Magdalene is Jesus’ wife in the novel’s exploration and their lineage continues to this day. Aphrodite Ancient Greek goddess Emperor Constantine’s enthusia
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