Is it true that Jesus has living blood descendents and that he married Mary Magdalene, or any other claims in the Da Vinci Code?
Like the Da Vinci Code author and the filmmakers, I believe that both the book and film are fictional. There are scholarly debates about many of the issues raised in the film, debates that will surely continue. What is most important is that this film provides us with an opportunity for an important conversation in our country: What is it about the relationship of women and the church today that makes a mere fictional novel so popular and so controversial? What deep need for answers to these questions has this phenomenon tapped into? I think that women are realizing that they have been denied access to a full spiritual life because of the inequalities ingrained in so many religions.