Talk:Religious debates over the Harry Potter series

Benedicts letters
I recently added the New York Times reporting on the letters Benedict wrote. Lifesitenews (an unreliable source and therefore not added) was the first to report this. I have been unable to find the full letters anywhere else so to make sure we or the NYT are not misquoting, I will refer here to their website: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-opposes-harry-potter-novels-signed-letters-from-cardinal-ratzinger-now/

English translations of the two letters by Cardinal Ratzinger follow:

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger Vatican City March 7, 2003

Esteemed and dear Ms. Kuby!

Many thanks for your kind letter of February 20th and the informative book which you sent me in the same mail.Â 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.

I would like to suggest that you write to Mr. Peter Fleetwood, (Pontifical Council of Culture, Piazza S. Calisto 16, I00153 Rome) directly and to send him your book.

Sincere Greetings and Blessings,

+ Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

Canonical christianity
It’s probably relevant to add somewhere (Christianity in the Novels?) that they do celebrate Christian holidays like Christmas in the books, Harry has a godfather (which is an exclusively Christian tradition), and Harry’s parents have a Christian Bible quote on their tombstone 207.136.99.57 (talk) 00:39, 25 July 2023 (UTC)