What The Da Vinci Code owes to women. From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: July 15, 2005| Author: Schenk, Christine | COPYRIGHT 2005 National Catholic Reporter. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

For more than four years Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code has topped The New York Times' bestseller list. While church hierarchy, historians and theologians variously denounce, debate or debunk his reworking of a 12th-century myth that Jesus was married to Mary of Magdala, few have speculated about why this engaging work of fiction has so captured the popular imagination.

Mr. Brown's masterful weaving of the medieval and the modern into a suspense-filled thriller would hold...

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