I recently finished reading the Kathleen McGowan trilogy about the Magdalene line. It’s a fictional interpretation of many of the theories supporting the idea that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were a couple, and had children whose bloodlines still exist today. For poorly written books they were strangely compelling. I am pretty fussy about books, and I was not impressed with McGowan as an author. BUT I find the bloodline theory fascinating, and found Robert Langdon’s The Da Vinci Code equally compelling for the same reason. Certainly these stories are a field day for conspiracy theorists and their detractors, but I am intuitively drawn to some of the broad themes and sense some deeper truths within that are absent from traditional historic records. Primarily I am drawn to the assertion that Patriarchal powers, in particular the Catholic Church, have