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slightly less so m August and December-January. For weekend retreats, the fee is $300, and small groups attend. Weeklong retreats are also held at Longlea, as well as short religious courses. Individual rooms are available and dining is family-style. In all, between 800 and 1,000 people attend Longlea each year. General information about Opus Dei is on the Internet at www.opusdei.org
The Da Vinci Code
In the spring of 2003, about two years after Opus Dei took possession of Longlea, Dan Brown’s novel, “The Da Vinci Code,” appeared on the scene. A fictional story, it casts the Catholic Church, and particularly Opus Dei, in a conspiratorial light by suggesting that the church has been suppressing an alternate history of Jesus Christ. By rolling together interesting factual information, symbolism, and metaphor in a long narrative line extending over two thousand years, Dan Brown ties together many things, e.g., paganism, Walt Disney, code words, anagrams, accurately described architectural structures, secret societies. He produced a fictional story that some seem to think is true.
The gist of “The Da Vinci Code” is this. Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene, and a pregnant Mary escaped to France to bring forth a child to carry on a royal bloodline. The book juxtaposes a documented belief in the equality of man and woman, pagan concepts, Jesus being mortal and not divine, and a different End of
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