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• Xenon Pictures’ THE DA VINCI HOAX Debunks the Code!
  Xenon Pictures has announced today the March 13, 2007 DVD re-release of THE DA VINCI HOAX, a documentary debunking author Dan Brown’s fictional theories on the relationship between Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, the beginnings of Christianity, and the Catholic Church. This thought-provoking film, hosted by best-selling authors Carl E. Olson and Sandra Miesel, as well as Jesuit biblical scholar Fr. Mitch Pacwa, S.J., exposes the inaccuracies and falsehoods of the popular novel, The Da Vinci Code.
• Op-ed: The Safe Faith to Insult
  Cameron and Jacobovici will mortally offend many Christians. Some critics will personally vilify them, while others question their motives and integrity.

  But prominent Christian clergymen won’t issue any death warrants, and the Vatican won’t call upon “all believing Christians” to avenge the insult.

  Now imagine if they’d gone after Mohammad instead of Jesus . . .

• Cardinal Rigali takes Lent to YouTube
  The cardinal’s first of nine Lenten reflections – one for each Sunday of Lent and Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday – appeared on the Web sites of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia (www.archdiocese-phl.org) and YouTube (www.youtube.com).
• Politics drives Science: Psychologists to Re-Examine Policy on Gay Therapy
  The American Psychological Association established a five-member task force to look at its policy on appropriate therapy for gay and lesbian people and is currently soliciting nominations for the panel.
• California’s stem-cell research company has no conflict
  The 1st District Court of Appeal upheld a decision by a lower court judge who last year ruled in favor of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, which was created when Proposition 71 was passed by 59 percent of the electorate in 2004.
• Time Magazine’s ‘Pilfering Priests’ is a Make-Believe ‘Crisis’
  The heading below the main title warns, “the Catholic Church is facing another crisis: clergy who steal money from their parishes.” Interesting. But what are the facts?
• The Shape of Faith: Sign of the Cross for Evangelicals
  More importantly, the sign of the cross is a lesson in discipleship. As Andreopoulos, from an Eastern Orthodox perspective, and Ghezzi, from a Roman Catholic perspective, both show, making sign of the cross is a powerful act of daily prayer, dedication, and remembrance. Ghezzi writes that at its heart, the sign of the cross is “a simple gesture and … a simple prayer.”

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