Controversial movie The Da Vinci Code has sparked further uproar among Vatican officials after a giant advertisement for the film appeared on the facade of the ancient church of San Pantaleo in Rome, Italy. According to local newspaper La Repubblica, the giant poster was erected while local priest Father Raniero Cantalamessa was busy preaching his Good Friday sermon indoors.

Church spokesman Marco Fibbi affirms the church permits advertising to raise funds but admits the enormous movie poster has caused trouble: "This film is not highly appreciated in ecclesiastical circles."

The Interior Ministry has now pledged to remove the image within a few days. Father Cantalamessa remains enraged: "Christ has been sold again, this time not for 30 pieces of silver but to publishers and bookshops for millions."

The movie, which is based on Dan Brown's best-selling book, controversially suggests Jesus fathered a child with Mary Magdalene and that their bloodline exists to this day.

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