Vatican bans Dan Brown film Angels & Demons from Rome churches

[DeclinetoState]

The Vatican has banned the makers of a prequel to The Da Vinci Code from filming in its grounds or any church in Rome, describing the work as “an offence against God”.

Angels and Demons, the latest Dan Brown thriller to be turned into a film, includes key episodes that take place in the Vatican and Rome’s churches. Archbishop Velasio De Paolis, the head of the Vatican’s Prefecture for Economic Affairs, said that Brown had “turned the gospels upside down to poison the faith”.

“It would be unacceptable to transform churches into film sets so that his blasphemous novels can be made into films in the name of business,” he said, adding that Brown’s work “wounds common religious feelings”.

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[Maggie_T]

Good for the Vatican! :claps: :thumb: :claps: Finally, they show some backbone.

Let Ron Howard and St. Thomas of Hollywood pout till their lips fall off their mugs. Let them go back to building "cities" in Hollywood hangars, like they used to do way back when.

Too bad, guys. Forgive the Vatican for refusing to give you the gun with which you blow their brains out. Sorry about the inconvenience.