{"id":2803,"date":"2009-05-08T11:05:15","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T11:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2009\/05\/just-in-vatican-declares-angel.html"},"modified":"2009-05-08T11:05:15","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T11:05:15","slug":"just-in-vatican-declares-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2009\/05\/just-in-vatican-declares-angel.html","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Declares &#8216;Angels &amp; Demons&#8217; Harmless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"angelsanddemonspic2foric.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/import\/imgs\/angelsanddemonspic2foric.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"172\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090506\/ap_en_mo\/eu_vatican_angels___demons\" target=\"_blank\">an article from the Associated Press<\/a>, the folks in Rome aren&#8217;t worried about the new Dan Brown movie, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelsanddemons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Angels &amp; Demons<\/a>,&#8221; which premiered there on Monday, reporting that:<br \/>\n&#8220;Reviewers at the Vatican&#8217;s newspaper have passed judgment on &#8220;Angels &amp; Demons,&#8221; finding the religious thriller commercial and inaccurate, but concluding it is &#8220;harmless&#8221; entertainment and not a danger to the church&#8230;The film offers &#8220;more than two hours of harmless entertainment, which hardly affects the genius and mystery of Christianity,&#8221; L&#8217;Osservatore&#8217;s reviewer wrote. It&#8217;s &#8220;a videogame that first of all sparks curiosity and is also, maybe, a bit of fun.&#8221;<br \/>\nHow about that? After all the hoopla leading up to the anticipated controversial &#8220;Angels &amp; Demons&#8221; release next week in the US, preceded by the Vatican&#8217;s negative response to movie of Dan Brown&#8217;s novel, &#8220;The Da Vinci Code,&#8221; I have to admit&#8211;I&#8217;m a little surprised. 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