Q. “What’s an oboe?” A. “An ill woodwind that nobody blows good.” Your turn.

You might have been a little surprised to hear that Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone has said Catholics shouldn’t read The DaVinci Code. The Church has a long history of banning books, which didn’t officially end until 1966. Authors on the prohibited list included: Descartes, Bacon, Spinoza, Locke, Kant, Zola and Milton. I suspect that this ban …

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