Here is an article reporting on the comments of Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone on behalf of the Vatican:

MSNBC News Services
Updated: 12:33 p.m. CT March 16, 2005

VATICAN CITY - The cardinal leading the Vatican’s charge against The Da Vinci Code urged Catholics on Wednesday to shun it like rotten food and branded the bestseller “a sack full of lies” insulting the Christian faith.

In an interview with Reuters inside the Vatican, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone also said Catholic bookstores should take the thriller off their shelves and accused U.S. author Dan Brown of “deplorable” behavior.

The novel is an international murder mystery centered on attempts to uncover a secret about the life of Christ that a clandestine society has tried to protect for centuries.

“Don’t buy this. Don’t read this because this is rotten food,” said Bertone, the highest ranking Catholic churchman to speak out against the blockbuster.

“A lot of novels do good but this book is rotten food ... it does harm, not good,” Bertone said in the 30-minute interview in the offices of the Vatican’s doctrinal department.

'Sack full of lies'
“This book is a sack full of lies against the Church, against the real history of Christianity and against Christ himself,” said Bertone, archbishop of northern Genoa.

The central tenet of the book is that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had children. Christians are taught that Jesus never married, was crucified and rose from the dead.

“We can’t keep quiet about the truth when faced with all the lies and all the inventions in this book,” Bertone said.

“Some of the gross falsehoods include the treatment of the death and the resurrection of Christ, which is the central mystery of Christianity,” he said.

The Cardinal says it pretty well.

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary