Code breakers: Blasphemy or an annoyance?

Renowned church historian the Rev. Michael J. Witt sauntered through the wooden doorway of the church's Father Dowling Hall. He headed for the nearest overhead projector he could see, an Apollo Concept model. Grabbing the sides of the podium before him, the 57-year-old man flicked the projector's power switch and an image appeared on the wall. Witt looked out at his audience and began to list the errors in "The Da Vinci Code."

For more than an hour one evening earlier this month, 75 people drank lemonade, ate cookies and listened as Witt eviscerated Dan Brown's novel. Each person was handed a packet of Witt's page-by-page rebuttal to the book's "facts."