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Good vs. evil debate on Harry Potter in Vatican mouthpiece
0 Comments | AFP, January, 2008
VATICAN CITY (AFP) — The Vatican newspaper published Monday good versus evil takes on the Harry Potter books, the fictional boy wizard star of the runaway best-selling books by J.K. Rowling.
The series drew criticism from the future Pope Benedict XVI in 2003 when he voiced fears over "subtle seductions" in the saga that could undermine children's religious development by blurring the line between good and evil.
Under the headline "The Double Face of Harry Potter," an expert in English literature, Edoardo Rialti, argues in L'Osservatore Romano that the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was right to worry.
In the opposing view, Catholic essayist and writer Paolo Gulisano wrote that "behind the fabulous adventures of the different characters you can see the...
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