The conservative religious group Opus Dei has asked for a disclaimer on the upcoming film based on the best-selling novel “The Da Vinci Code.” / Source: The Associated Press The conservative religious ...

NEW YORK — Opus Dei is one of the villains in The Da Vinci Code. And although the Dan Brown blockbuster is fiction, it’s likely that many people will come away from the film version next month ...

Usually, the Vatican ignores books or movies that paint the church in unfavorable, controversial ways. Not this time. With 40 million copies of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code sold and the movie version ...

Stating that it does not intend to organize any boycotts, Opus Dei has once again asked Sony Pictures to consider editing the soon-to-be-released film The Da Vinci Code, based on Dan Brown’s ...

Opus Dei is urging film ratings boards to give the film The Da Vinci Code an adult rating because it says children should not be exposed to the lies it promotes about Catholicism and Jesus fathering a ...

ROME — Before being ordained a priest in the Opus Dei prelature in 1999, Father John Wauck studied Renaissance history literature at Harvard University and later served as a contributing editor of The ...

“Opus Dei does not have any monks, albino or otherwise,” Brian Finnerty said with a smile. Mr. Finnerty, the U.S. media relations director for the group, was debunking one of the many distortions in ...

The entrance to the national headquarters of the Roman Catholic group Opus Dei is the last place you would expect to find mention of The Da Vinci Code. The conservative organization has spent the last ...

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April 19, 2006 — -- Dan Brown's bestselling novel "The Da Vinci Code" has generated controversy since it was first published in 2003. First, Christians opposed the very premise of the novel, ...

Catholic group Opus Dei have urged Da Vinci Code director Ron Howard to include a disclaimer to say that the movie is a work of fiction. The film, based on Dan Brown's book of the same title, claims ...

NEW YORK — The first documentary to bask in the halo of the May 2006 theatrical release of “The Da Vinci Code” is a two-hour, $700,000 investigative work called “Decoding Opus Dei.” Opus Dei, a ...