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Author Dan Brown says the
fact that he rewrote the history of the Catholic Church entitles him to
rewrite its future.
Brown says the Papal Conclave will need the kind of imagination he
demonstrated in his best-selling novel, "The Da Vinci Code," in which
Jesus is portrayed as a married man with children.
"Only someone with my fantastic vision can guide the cardinals toward the
best candidate for the Papacy," Brown said in a statement to the press.
Brown denied that he himself is a candidate "at this time" but would not
rule out an eventual run for the office if the other participants in the
conclave cannot find a suitable contender.
He said it's important to remember that the Catholic Church doesn't
prevent non-cardinals from becoming Pope.
"The Washington Post called my book 'unputdownable' and that's the kind of
Pope I think the Catholic Church should have in these argumentative
times," Brown said.
The author said he still has an unused admission ticket to tour the
Sistine Chapel and he will use it to gain admittance to the conclave when
it begins on April 18th.
He said if the cardinals don't let him in, he'll rent a nearby building
and hold his own one-man conclave.
"I'll bet I can send up smoke signals before they do," he asserted.
But Brown said his signals would indicate only that he has selected a
candidate, not the person's identity.
"To find out who it is, you'll have to read my next novel."
Much of that book will be based on Freemasonry. Brown thinks of himself as
an equal opportunity novelist and wants Protestants and Jews to detest him
as much as practicing Catholics do.
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