IN a move that suggests it desperately wants to be seen as “cool”, the Vatican has done a U-turn on Harry Potter, which the Pope once condemned for “undermining the soul of Christianity”. In 2003, two years before he was elected Pope, Joseph “Boy Nazi” Ratzinger, then a Cardinal and head of Vatican doctrine, said [...]
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