Cardinal Egan: Jesus theories 'science fiction'
BY MATT FRIEDMAN
NEWSDAY STAFF WRITER
Posted April 17 2006

Edward Cardinal Egan used his Easter homily Sunday to rail against alternative theories about the life of Christ that he said were undermining Catholicism.

A standing-room-only crowd of at least 2,500 ticketed parishioners packed St. Patrick's Cathedral for the Cardinal's 10:15 a.m. Mass.

Egan took issue with a U.S. News & World Report magazine story on a controversial new book called "The Jesus Dynasty: The Hidden History of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the Birth of Christianity," by a religious studies professor at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

The book by James Tabor claims that Jesus was the son of a Roman soldier and that he wanted to establish a worldwide dynasty led by 12 tribal leaders, with his brother James, rather than Peter, as its leader. the rest