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8. The hype over 'Gospel of Judas' | National Geographic has manufactured a public relations coup recently by simultaneously releasing two books and a two-hour television special announcing the discovery of a "Gospel of Judas" (Glen L. Thompson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
   
   
9. Return of the Cainites | "The Gospel of Judas" is only one of many attempts to turn Christianity upside down (Gene Edward Veith, World)
   
   
10. The 'good news' of Judas | Are the contents of this treasure the gospel truth? (Alan Cochrum, Star-Telegram, Ft. Worth, Tex.)
    
    
11. We might not just take this as gospel | Viewing Judas as Jesus' best friend won't fly (A.C. Snow, News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.)
    
    

Da Vinci Code:

1. As film arrives, 'Da Vinci Code' debate renews | Churches, scholars at issue with many of the novel's central themes (Associated Press)
   
   
2. Most Catholics not fazed by 'Code' talk | Most (73%) say The Da Vinci Code has had "no effect on their faith" (USA Today)
   
   
3. Italy to remove 'Da Vinci Code' ad | The Interior Ministry said Tuesday it would remove a poster promoting "The Da Vinci Code" movie from the scaffolding of a Rome church undergoing renovation after its clergymen complained, officials said Tuesday (Associated Press)
   
   
4. US appeals court backs Brown's "Da Vinci Code" | The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York has upheld a ruling that Dan Brown did not copy elements of another writer's work in his bestseller, "The Da Vinci Code," his publisher said on Thursday (Reuters)
   
   
5. A bad novel is the least of our concerns | Rowan Williams could have used his sermon to talk about the growing gap between rich and poor, the appalling treatment of the elderly, the ethical problems surrounding both unborn babies and the concept of euthanasia, genocide in the Sudan or the persecution of Christians in Muslim countries. He could have tackled the lack of interest in the Church, the dearth of churchgoers and the rise in the cult of celebrity (Alice Thompson, The Telegraph, London)
   
   
6. A code of one's own | Perhaps the popularity of the conspiracy theory is based in the quest is to solve one's own problems, to decipher not the Da Vinci code, but the in-law code, the job code, or the teenager code -- to find a new answer to the question: What's next? (Editorial, The Boston Globe)
   
   

Da Vinci debunking :

1. Churches target 'Da Vinci' | Catholics, Protestants join to rebut claims of upcoming movie (Rocky Mountain News)
   
   
2. Read the book? Now go to the church service | Australia's religious leaders are seeking to turn Hollywood's profit-making film adaptation of The Da Vinci Code into an unlikely recruitment mission for the Christian church (The Sydney Morning Herald)
   
   
3. Church launches DVD to debunk Da Vinci Code | The Scottish Catholic Church has declared war on The Da Vinci Code by releasing a DVD describing Dan Brown's book as "monumental nonsense" (The Scotsman)
   
   
4. Holy war against Da Vinci Code | The Scottish Catholic Church is counter-attacking The Da Vinci Code by sending out hundreds of DVDs to schools and parishes lambasting what it calls the "nonsense" of the book and film (Scotland on Sunday)
   
   
5. Location fee funds Da Vinci Code rebuttal | Tonight at Winchester Cathedral The Da Vinci Code will be described as "usually stilted and often worse … a sensationalist thriller … with all its inaccuracies and absurdities"—and the makers of the film, released next month, have paid for the swinging attack (The Guardian, London)
   
   

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