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Adult Education Series 4-Pack, July 6, 2006
Presented by Catherine Heinhold

Catherine Heinhold, a Catholic Campus Minister at Georgetown University, talked for about 40 minutes about what the book and movie report to know about Jesus and what the Catholic tradition agrees with and what our tradition would disagree with in regards to these claims. Ms. Heinhold shared some of the diverse traditions of Gnosticism over the ages and the important distinctions between these traditions and those of Christianity.

Attendees were then invited to break into small groups to share their own reflection on the book and/or movie and what questions they may have had about their own faith. Ms. Heinhold then opened up the discussion from the small groups as the evening ended.

Additional resources from the Catholic perspective:

Jesus Decoded (US Bishops)
http://www.jesusdecoded.com/introduction.php

American Catholic
http://www.americancatholic.org/News/DaVinciCode/

Catholic News Services
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0602852.htm

Arch Diocese of Galveston-Houston
http://www.diogh.org/youngacm/davinci.htm

Sample Books by Catholic publishers:

101 Questions & Answers on the Da Vinci Code and the Catholic Tradition by Nancy De Flon, John Vidmar, OP

The Da Vinci Hoax: Exposing the Errors in The Da Vinci Code by Carl Olson & Sandra Miesel

De-Coding Da Vinci: The Facts Behind the Fiction of The Da Vinci Code, Amy Welborn.

The following resources also have been featured on the parish Faith section before.

• The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has produced a TV special, Jesus Decoded, available on DVD and intended for broadcast on NBC.
• The USCCB also has a booklet, The Authentic Jesus: Christian Truth Versus Modern Fiction, for sale.
• The Arlington Catholic Herald has pulled together a series of related articles discussing aspects of topics from the movie (e.g., Opus Dei, Mary Magdalene).
• PBS’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly featured the Da Vinci Code on their May 12, 2006 program; see a transcript of the feature airing and a list of related resources.