Book buring - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 08 Apr 2019 03:13:44 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Book buring - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Polish priest apologises for Harry Potter book burning https://cathnews.co.nz/2019/04/08/polish-priest-harry-potter-book-burning/ Mon, 08 Apr 2019 07:51:21 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=116708 A priest in northern Poland who led a public burning of books that included Harry Potter titles and other "evil" items parishioners wanted destroyed has apologised. Father Rafał Jarosiewicz called the burning of objects thought to be connected to magic and the occult, and deemed by their owners to be an evil force, "unfortunate". Images Read more

Polish priest apologises for Harry Potter book burning... Read more]]> A priest in northern Poland who led a public burning of books that included Harry Potter titles and other "evil" items parishioners wanted destroyed has apologised.

Father Rafał Jarosiewicz called the burning of objects thought to be connected to magic and the occult, and deemed by their owners to be an evil force, "unfortunate".

Images from the burning last Sunday at the Catholic parish of Our Lady Mother of the Church and St Catherine of Sweden, in Gdansk, were originally posted on the Facebook page of SMS z Nieba (SMS from Heaven) , a foundation that uses unconventional means to carry out religious work across Poland. Read more

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