The unassailable paragon of morality known as the Catholic Church is officially adding to the chorus of complaints about The Golden Compass with a long editorial in the Vatican newspaper l'Osservatore Romano. They're upset because it "promotes a cold and hopeless world without God." (Their displeasure with New Line's fiscal profligacy is unstated but implied. They also thought it was too long.)
It was the Vatican's most stinging broadside against an author and a film since it...