Nun says Da Vinci filming ‘a desecration’

A CATHOLIC nun said yesterday she staged a 12-hour protest against filming of controversial best-seller The Da Vinci Code at Lincoln Cathedral because it was heretical.

Sister Mary Michael, 61, also said the cathedral committed the sin of simony - conducting financial transactions involving spiritual goods - by taking €150,00 in ‘donations’ from the film company.

“The church should not be accepting money for something that is not a true story. They should be praying more, and then the money would come in.”