Reuters reports that the Vatican, Wednesday, condemned the film adaptation of The Golden Compass as well as Philip Pullman himself. The long editorial in l’Osservatore Romano, the official Vatican newspaper, was supposedly the harshest since the release of The Da Vinci Code. ‘”In Pullman’s world, hope simply does not exist, because there is no salvation but only personal, individualistic capacity to control the situation and dominate events,” the editorial said.’ The Vatican newspaper described Pullman’s world as hopeless and Godless, demonstrating that “when man tries to eliminate God from his horizon, everything is reduced, made sad, cold and inhumane.” Read more.