Don't read the Da Vinci Code, pleads cardinal

If you’re not among the millions who have already read the blockbuster novel The Da Vinci Code, a senior Italian cardinal has a plea for you: don’t read it and don’t buy it.

Genoa Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, a friend of the pope, said today that the runaway success of the Dan Brown novel is proof of ”anti-Catholic” prejudice containing “cheap lies”.