Catholic newspaper publishes debate about HP - what do people think?

[Tonks]

> Geoff:
> I still feel that I have to disagree with you. I think that it 
stems from two sources, the first perhaps being the form of words in 
which we  couch our own personal perspective of faith and the other 
being the I get the impression that you are possibly approaching the 
Christian faith from a Catholic point of view whereas I am coming 
from an evangelical, Non-conformist standpoint.
> 

Tonks:

Yes, my own belief is more of a Catholic view, (Anglo-Catholic to be 
precise). But I am not trying to argue different points of view of 
personal Christian belief. What I am trying to say it that I think 
that Rowling was using some classic ideas from Catholic theology in 
the books, especially in the last book. I wish she would 'confess' 
that like she seems to want to confess everything else. 

One could make a clear case for the fact that basic Catholic (which 
includes more that just the RC church) theology of the spiritual 
life is a basis for what she has written. I am talking about the 
teaching of some of the greatest Saints such as St. John of the 
Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Bonaventure, St. 
Ignatius, to name only a few. Also the writing of famious monks such 
as Thomas Merton. Rowling can not have escaped hearing or reading 
some of them. And she has admitted to studying Alchemy. And 
Christian Alchemy is all about the transformation of the human being 
into the image of Christ. Some even say that St. Thomas Aquinas was 
an Alchemist.

Peace,
Tonks_op