Word: cattolici
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...magazine, called Studi Cattolici, is not an official Opus publication, but is produced by Opus members. Coming after the outcry over a Danish newspaper's cartoons of Mohammed, there was an almost endearing cluelessness in the magazine's decision to portray the Muslim prophet in perdition. The cartoon borrowed an image from Dante's Inferno, in which Mohammed languishes in hell, sliced in two for the crime of "dividing" faith in God. Studi's editors then placed in the mouth of Dante's infernal tour guide, Virgil, the remark that a guy next to Mohammed "with his pants down" represented...
...Would it have been better if Studi Cattolici had not run the cartoon in the first place? For that matter, would it be better if on May 19 we were to discover that director Ron Howard had decided not to paint the grotesque portrait of Opus (which has its weirdnesses, but probably not including assassination) that Dan Brown did in his novel...
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