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# A Bit on B16's Views on Harry Potter
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/1731/
- Published: 2005-07-18T16:29:04.000Z
- Updated: 2005-07-18T16:29:04.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Books, #wpChunk

> 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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