For Further Reading:
•Donald Senior (gen. ed.). The Catholic Study Bible. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002
•Peter E. Gillquist, Alan Wallerstedt, Joseph Allen, and  St. Athanasius Orthodox Academy (Santa Barbara, California). The Orthodox Study Bible. Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1993.
•Mary R. Thompson. Mary of Magdala: Apostle and Leader. Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press, 1995.
•Joanne Turpin. Twelve Apostolic Women. Cincinnati, Ohio: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2004. Leonard Swidler. Biblical Affirmations of Woman. Philadelphia, Penn: Westminster Press, 1979 •Jo Ann Kay McNamara. Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millennia. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1996.
•Virginia Ramey Mollenkott. Divine Feminine. New York, New York: Crossroad Press, 1994
•Amy Welborn. De-Coding Da Vinci: The Facts Behind the Fiction of The Da Vinci Code.  Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor, 2005. •Sandra Miesel and Carl E. Olson. The Da Vinci Hoax: Exposing the Errors in The Da Vinci Code. San Francisco, California: Ignatius Press, 2004. •Nancy de Flon and John Vidmar, OP. 101 Questions & Answers on The Da Vinci Code and the Catholic Tradition. Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press, 2006. •Bart D. Ehrman. Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine. New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. •Leo Donald Davis. The First Seven Ecumenical Councils (325-787): Their History and Theology (Theology and Life Series 21). Wilmington, Delaware: Michael Glazier, Inc., 1983.
•Aidan Nichols. Rome and the Eastern Churches. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1992.
•Bart Ehrman. Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Make It Into The New Testament.  NY: Oxford, 2003
•Philip Jenkins. Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way. NY: Oxford Univ Press, 2001
•Eamon Duffy. Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes. New Haven, CT:Yale University Press, 1999
http://www.ptloma.edu/PhilRel/reed/Reedings/2004/153September2004.htm  : “Reader Beware!  The book is riddled with inaccuracies, fraudulent claims, subtle misrepresentations, and blatant lies.  We should heed Paxton Hood’s ancient warning:  “Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.”  So beware:  The Da Vinci Code is a propaganda piece, written by a man seeking to destroy Christianity and replace it with a religion more attuned to the feminist fantasies and postmodern prejudices he favors.  It’s a popularization of esoteric notions found in books such as Elaine Pagel’s The Gnostic Gospels, Lynn Picknettt and Clive Prince’s The Templar Revelation, and Margaret StarBird’s The Goddess in the Gospels:  Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine.  Brown longs for the reestablishment of a pagan cult devoted to Mother Earth, a sexually libertine and morally permissive autonomous individualism.”  (Point Loma Nazarene University at San Diego, California)