New Pope Disapproves of Harry Potter

[slytherin_dragoon1]

Like anyone else, he is entitled to his opinion, however misguided. 
And it's not as if his opinion on anything whatsoever has any bearing
on my life.



--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "mongobongo38"
<mongobongo38 at y...> wrote:
> Source URL: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jul/05071301.html
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> HERE ARE SOME EXCERPTS FROM THE ABOVE ARTICLE:
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> LifeSiteNews.com
> Wednesday July 13, 2005
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> 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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