Italy to remove ‘Da Vinci’ poster
Italy’s Interior Ministry said Tuesday it would remove a poster promoting “The Da Vinci Code” movie from the scaffolding of a Rome church undergoing renovation after its clergymen complained.
The enormous poster, featuring a picture of Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” and the title of the upcoming film, has been plastered for a few weeks on the scaffolded facade of the church of St. Pantaleo, which is just off a major thoroughfare in Rome’s historic center.
“It advertises something that is against Christ and against the church,” said St. Pantaleo’s rector, the Rev. Adolfo Garcia Duran.
The story contends that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had descendants and that Opus Dei, a conservative religious organization close to the Vatican, and the Catholic Church were at the center of covering it up.
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