Again, behold the reason I ran screaming from Holy Mother Church...
"Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Catholic Bishops Yank Positive Review of 'Compass'
Without explanation, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has
retracted on its website a positive review of The Golden Compass that
appeared in Catholic newspapers last week. The review had appeared to
counterbalance claims by the Catholic League, the nation's largest
Catholic lay group, that it served as an introduction to atheism
expounded in the trilogy of books on which the movie is based. The
League had urged a boycott of the film. In an interview with the
Baltimore Sun, Jim Lackey general news editor of the Catholic News
Service, run by the bishops' conference, acknowledged that he was told
to remove the review from the CNS website. "It's hard for me to
categorize whether or not it was a surprise," he told the newspaper.
Meanwhile, the church's Raleigh, NC diocese on Tuesday warned pastors in
a letter about the possible ramifications of the film. "The concern is
that once a child gets 'hooked' on the film or the books, then the next
film could resort to the true atheistic nature of the books," the letter
said.
http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2007-12-12/
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