A Bit on B16's Views on Harry Potter

Debates are raging online and off over whether the new Pope Benedict really disapproves of Harry Potter.

It seems a German author, Gabriele Kuby, recently wrote a book called "Harry Potter - Gut Oder Bose" (that translates as "Harry Potter - Good or Evil," and she apparently comes down on the side of evil). Kuby asked then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger for his opinion, and in two separate letters, he apparently called the books "subtle seductions" which "deeply distort Christianity in the soul."

Or did he? Now comes today's Vatican Radio broadcast, in which a former Vatican official says he thinks those were essentially form letters, probably written by an assistant, and that Kuby's book was frankly "unsatisfactory." So maybe the Pope isn't such a Muggle after all.

"I don't think she (Kuby) understands English humour," Monsignor Peter Fleedwood said, as quoted on a transcript posted on CatholicInsider.com.

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