Letters to the Editor
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Really? This is the best use of your vast resources, Catholic Church?
I mean, didn't Jesus say something about helping out poor starving people, or something? But getting people to not watch a work of fiction is way more important. My parents are Catholic and they loved the novel, because they are adults capable of making those sorts of decisions with their own brains.
If your faith is so fragile that Tom Hanks is going to change your entire belief system, then wow, that's an impressively crappy faith you've got there. Did people protest that Nick Cage movie where there was a treasure map on the back of the Declaration of Independence, or something? Cause there actually isn't, you know. And people might think there is. Because that's like, anti-American, and also, we are all drooling morons who need to be told what to believe. It's way too much trouble figuring it out on our own.
Also, excellent point, wingspan, except that there's not really any evidence in the Bible that she was a prostitute. She's just introduced right after the story about the prostitute with the anointing of the feet and all that. But if she had been, she almost certainly would have known how to prevent pregnancy pretty effectively. As it is, I can't see why there should be this much controversy about a woman who was apparently chosen to be the first person to see the resurrected Jesus. That seems like an honor reserved for a pretty important person. Let her have her place in history and in fiction.