The latest banning of the series comes from a Catholic school in Tennessee. The reason behind the ban? “The pastor felt the series contained “actual curses and spells,” and that reading them risked “conjuring evil spirits.” He even notified the Vatican in Rome who agreed with him.
According to a report in Entertainment; “the Rev. Dan Reehil, a pastor at the St. Edward Catholic School in Nashville, stated: “These books present magic as both good and evil, which is not true, but in fact a clever deception,” he wrote. “The curses and spells used in the books are actual curses and spells; which when read by a human being risk conjuring evil spirits into the presence of the person reading the text.”
The report goes on to state that Reehil contacted exorcists in the U.S. and Rome andy they agreed with the books’ removal.