This from Reuters:
Top Cardinal Blasts ‘Da Vinci Code’ as ‘Cheap Lies’
Choice quote:
“You can find that book everywhere and the risk is that many people who read it believe that those fairy tales are real,” [Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone] said.
You certainly wouldn’t want people reading a book full of baseless fairy tales, and then believing it’s all totally true. Oh no. Couldn’t have that. Tsk Tsk.