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-- Associated Press
Cante rbury Archbishop On 'The Da Vinci Code'
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams says the huge public appetite for stories such as "The Da Vinci Code" does not weaken the truth of the Gospel.
Williams, spiritual leader of the 77 million-member Anglican Communion, used his Easter sermon to take on the spread of conspiracy theories about religion.
Dan Brown's thriller "The Da Vinci Code" -- whose plot is based on a theory overwhelmingly rejected by theologians that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had a child -- has sold more than 40 million copies since it was published in 2003.
Williams said "saturation coverage of the 'Da Vinci Code' literature" and the recent rediscovery of the ancient "Gospel of Judas" were part of a widespread desire to trust conspiracy over authority.
"Anything that looks like the official version is automatically suspect," Williams told worshipers at Canterbury Cathedral in southern England.
He said such theories, though they may be appealing, do not help in "understanding what the New Testament writers are actually saying and why."
-- Associated Press
