Gee, I didn't know that the Catholic Church didn't like Harry Potter. I thought that they got over their whole obsession with witchcraft a few centuries ago, and were leaving that up to their new bestest-friends, the christo-fascist Amurkans. Apparently Ratzi the Nazi is just not down with Harry.

In a letter dated March 7, 2003 Cardinal Ratzinger thanked Kuby for her "instructive" book Harry Potter - gut oder böse (Harry Potter- good or evil?), in which Kuby says the Potter 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.

"It is good, that you enlighten people about Harry Potter, because those are subtle seductions, which act unnoticed and by this deeply distort Christianity in the soul, before it can grow properly," wrote Cardinal Ratzinger.

I'm sure that Pope Ratzi the Nazi thinks that there was no evil at all in the parishes of John Geoghan and other priests down through the centuries. Perhaps if those youngsters who were molested by the good-and-pure men of the cloth had been been home reading what passed for novels as popular as Harry Potter in their day, they might not have been exposed to Real, Palpable Evil instead of what an insane old Nazi sees as "Evil" in a new Millenium where more and more people are seeing him as irrelevant.

Pope Ratzi reminds me of Cardinal Glick in "Dogma", the kind of asshole who would bless his golf clubs because he thought it would give a better game.