New Pope Disapproves of Harry Potter

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LifeSiteNews.com
Wednesday July 13, 2005


Pope Opposes Harry Potter Novels - Signed Letters from
Cardinal Ratzinger Now Online
RIMSTING, Germany, July 13, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) -
LifeSiteNews.com has obtained and made available online
copies of two letters sent by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who
was recently elected Pope, to a German critic of the Harry
Potter novels. In March 2003, a month after the press
throughout the world falsely proclaimed that Pope John Paul II
approved of Harry Potter, the man who was to become his
successor sent a letter to a Gabriele Kuby outlining his
agreement with her opposition to J.K. Rowling's offerings. 

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In a letter dated March 7, 2003 Cardinal Ratzinger thanked
Kuby for her "instructive" book Harry Potter - gut oder böse
(Harry Potter- good or evil?), in which Kuby says the Potter
books corrupt the hearts of the young, preventing them from
developing a properly ordered sense of good and evil, thus
harming their relationship with God while that relationship is still
in its infancy.

"It is good, that you enlighten people about Harry Potter,
because those are subtle seductions, which act unnoticed and
by this deeply distort Christianity in the soul, before it can grow
properly," wrote Cardinal Ratzinger.

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