The Da Vinci Code

The blasphemous book and the showing of the movie The Da Vinci Code highlight the transition of the Catholic Church’s focus on social engagement and lay empowerment from one more concerned with Catholic identity and evangelization.

Prior to Vatican II, the book and the movie The Da Vinci Code would have been banned outright by the Catholic Church. Thomas A. Droleskey explains [condensed and edited for brevity]:

As bad as The Da Vinci Code is in its book and cinematic forms, there would not have been much need sixty or seventy years ago for an elaborate series of explanations, no less books and pamphlets, to teach Catholics why such a collection of blasphemous lies must not be patronized in any form by any Catholic for any reason. Bishops would have instructed their priests to command the faithful to boycott such a book and/or motion picture. They spoke but the word and their sheep listened, taking to the streets if they had to do so. Most, although not all, Catholics would do as they were instructed by their shepherds without a moment’s hesitation. And that would have been the end of The Da Vinci Code at that time.

Today, sadly, we see more than a handful of bishops and priests praising motion pictures promoting perversity. And even those bishops who do try on occasion to oppose the evils of popular culture find that few of their sheep, “liberated” by all of the errors of conciliarism and its many mutations, will follow their advice. Why should we be shocked to find that Catholics have bought The Da Vinci Code as a book and find it credible when the truths of the Faith are under attack in almost every Catholic school and college and university here and around the world? Why should we be shocked that Catholics will spend their money to purchase tickets to watch The Da Vinci Code as a motion pictures when conciliarism teaches them to accept the joys of “healthy secularity” and pluralism?

Christ came to announce a kingdom. A kingdom is a hierarchical structure. A kingdom is not a democracy. Christ never asked any advice from the Apostles; never argued with them or with anyone. He was the Master and he taught, and men must either accept His teaching or reject it: there was no place for argument about it.

There is widespread disobedience in the Church today. At some point, someone is going to need to say, “Hey, guys, we have a problem here and it needs FIXING.”