Today on the Laura Ingraham show

Not one to court controversy by making outlandish statements, I have decided to make the very safe assertion that Dan Brown's recent bestseller "The Da Vince Code" is pure fiction. With 148 weeks at the top of the bestseller list in the US and looking to stay there, The Da Vinci Code is about to be released as a major Hollywood movie starring Tom Hanks. This mystery-thriller is wowing readers with its non-stop action, and is about to reach a whole new audience through the silver screen.

Today in the United States they are running ecumenical classes in the religious relevance of Dan Brown's plot-lines. The High Court in London has heard the case that Dan Brown took ideas from a recent historical treatise on the early church. Tom Hanks is being vilified on radio for portraying a character in a film of a book that brings into question the morality of Opus Dei and the wider Catholic Church.

Why is anyone concerned about the doings of a fictional character? Are the leaders of Opus Dei so powerful that they mean to fight a propaganda war against a pulp fiction phenomenon? Is anyone so uncertain in their Christianity that they are shaken by the thought that Jesus had sexual relationships?