THE TELEGRAPH: An article in the Vatican’s official newspaper has condemned JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books for posing a danger to children by promoting witchcraft and the occult.
In a damning indictment of the bestselling books, among the most successful in publishing history, the Vatican’s official newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, has called the teenage boy wizard “the wrong kind of hero”.
Under the headline 'The double face of Harry Potter’, the lengthy article concludes: “Despite the values that we come across in the narration, at the base of this story, witchcraft is proposed as a positive ideal.
"The violent manipulation of things and people comes thanks to knowledge of the occult. “The ends justify the means because the knowledgeable, the chosen ones, the intellectuals know how to control the dark powers and turn them into good.
“This a grave and deep lie, because it is the old Gnostic temptation of confusing salvation and truth with a secret knowledge.” JK Rowling's Harry Potter condemned in Vatican newspaper >>> By Malcolm Moore and Nigel Reynolds
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