medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Patricia Kiernan wrote:
>
> Please forgive the levity here, but I just had to share this tidbit,
> given our previous lengthy discussions of The Da Vinci Code. A few
> minutes ago I turned on ABC news and they were doing a segment on the
> effect of the Da Vinci Code and some of the backlash, especially from
> the Catholic Church. They interviewed an Opus Dei priest who said
> that Catholics would learn more about theology and history from Monty
> Python and the Holy Grail than from The Da Vinci Code.
> Aha! Just the excuse I need to add it to my syllabus! Hmm, or perhaps
> a field-trip to the Broadway version?
I'm going to take a wild guess here, and suggest that he (and I suppose from
the context that it was a "he") wasn't actually advocating that film, let
alone "Monty Python's Life of Brian" (whose language choice may have been
more sensible than Mel Gibson's) :-)
John Briggs
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