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Fantasy » alt.fan.tolkien » Why Pope Benedict Opposes Harry Potter Novels
| Why Pope Benedict Opposes Harry Potter Novels [message #71363] |
Fr, 01 Juli 2005 02:40 |
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Pope Benedict Opposes Harry Potter Novels
RIMSTING, Germany, June 27, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As the sixth
issue of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series - Harry Potter and the
Half-Blood Prince - is about to be released, the news that Cardinal
Joseph Ratzinger, prior to his elevation to the Pontificate, had
denounced the wildly popular series has resurfaced. In 2003, a month
after the English press throughout the world falsely proclaimed that
Pope John Paul II approved of Harry Potter, the man who was to become
his successor sent a letter to a Catholic German critic of Harry Potter
outlining his agreement with her opposition to Rowling's offerings.
As Amazon books touted over a million pre-orders for the newest in the
Potter series, Spiritdaily.com, a Catholic news website with the flair
of the DrudgeReport, recalled a German magazine article speaking of a
letter from Cardinal Ratzinger to German Potter critic Gabriele Kuby.
That letter came to Kuby on March 7, 2003. A month before papers
around the world were littered with false headlines such as "Pope
Approves Potter" (Toronto Star), "Pope Sticks Up for Potter Books"
(BBC), "Harry Potter Is Ok With The Pontiff" (Chicago Sun Times) and
"Vatican: Harry Potter's OK with us" (CNN Asia). The stories were based
on an off-hand comment in favour of the Potter books by a Vatican
spokesman at a press conference on the release of a Vatican document on
the New Age. (See the LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/feb/03020703.html )
A 2003 German-language interview with Kuby, the author of "Harry Potter
- gut oder b=F6se" (Harry Potter- good or evil?), by Zenit news
summarizes Kuby's objections to Potter neatly as its theme being "My
Will be done' opposed to 'Thy Will be done". In that interview Kuby
readily admits that many people, Catholics included, do not see the
dangers she sees in the Potter series. "I have no desire to see and
depict devils where there are none, but when I see with my own eyes,
when my intelligence and heart inform me, that there is a devil painted
on a wall even though most everyone else sees on this same wall one
flowery wallpaper design, then I feel obliged to give witness to the
truth , whether convenient or unwelcome. There is such a thing as
public deception - we Germans know about that," she says. (See the
German Zenit interview
http://www.zenit.org/german/visualizza.phtml?sid=3D4... )
The main thrust of Kuby's objection to Potter is that the books corrupt
the hearts of the young, preventing them from developing a properly
ordered sense of good and evil, thus harming their relationship with
God while that relationship is still in its infancy.
In the Zenit interview, Kuby quotes from the letter she received from
Cardinal Ratzinger. In the letter, then-Cardinal Ratzinger
specifically pointed to the fact that the danger in the Potter books is
hidden was greatly concerning. "It is good that you shed light and
inform us on the Harry Potter matter, for these are subtle seductions
that are barely noticeable and precisely because of that deeply affect
(children) and corrupt the Christian faith in souls even before it (the
Faith) could properly grow and mature," said Cardinal Ratzinger.
Kuby's Potter criticism also received recognition in Germany from the
city of Munich's office of Youth affairs, which at the time made
headlines for indicating that the Potter books were not fit for
children.
Regarding the harm to children from the Potter books, Kuby again quotes
Cardinal Ratzinger's letter saying, "That they (children) are being cut
off from God, the source of Love and Hope , so that they in sorrowful
life conditions are without a foundation that supports them -that they
lose the spirit of discernment between good and evil and that they will
not have the necessary strength and knowledge to withstand the
temptations to evil."
The most prominent Potter critic in North America, Catholic novelist
and painter Michael O'Brien commented to LifeSiteNews.com on the
comments of now-Pope Benedict saying, "This discernment on the part of
Benedict XVI reveals the Holy Father's depth and wide ranging gifts of
spiritual discernment." O'Brien, author of a book dealing with fantasy
literature for children added, "it's consistent with many of the
statements he's been making since his election to the Chair of Peter,
indeed for the past 20 years - a probing accurate read of the massing
spiritual warfare that is moving to a new level of struggle in western
civilization. He is a man in whom a prodigious intellect is integrated
with great spiritual gifts. He is the father of the universal church
and we would do well to listen to him."
See O'Brien's essay analyzing the Potter series:
http://www.lifesite.net/features/harrypotter/obrienpotter.ht ml
See the LifeSiteNews.com Harry Potter controversy page:
http://www.lifesite.net/features/harrypotter
See Gabriele Kuby's, Michael O'Brien and Spiritdaily's websites:
http://www.gabriele-kuby.de/
http://www.studiobrien.com
http://www.spiritdaily.com
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jun/05062709.html
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