Friday, June 03, 2005
JUSTICE DELIVERED
Pope outsells Potter.
(Maybe now Catholic parents will finally get the message.)
Just a couple of weeks after his elevation to the lofty heights of head of the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI is giving Harry Potter a run for his money in the literary popularity stakes.
It would seem as if the former cardinal Joseph Ratzinger has it in for Scottish writer J.K. Rowling and her young world of sorcery and witchcraft. Even before his papal incarnation, he was busy warning readers to steer clear of the imaginative world they so love on the grounds that it contains too much black magic.
And now to add insult to injury, his own books have gone and knocked the latest Harry Potter book from top place in a German book chart.
