Dan Brown. Why does he like to invoke controversy so much?

Starting with The Da Vinci Code and following it up with Angels and Demons, Dan Brown has certainly seemed to have incurred the wrath of the Vatican. Why is he really interested in stirring the dark secrets which he so calls "hidden" by the Vatican? Whatever the reason, the catholic are furious about it.

Charles Lewis gives a detailed account as to how the Catholic reacted to the "brilliant" plots of Brown's books http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/holy-post/archive/2009/05/14/dan-brown-feels-the-wrath-of-catholics.aspx

Some might say Dan Brown is dead serious against the Vatican. This leads to the conclusion that the ongoing virtual war between the two sides is getting deadly serious. Others speculate he is just taunting the Vatican. "It's fiction of course", they say. And who knows the Vatican might be just playing along...right?

PS. Check out the new Dan Brown book, The Lost Symbol. It failed to enthral me as much as The Da Vinci Code did. But still it was a good read. And watch out for the LITERAL meanings of all the clues. I figured out how to decipher the "clues" before Langdon and his new partner did. LOL