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[Harry Potter]Does the Pope know about witches and wizards?

We know for certain that the Minister of Magic has direct contact with the Muggle Prime Minister of the UK. I think it's safe to assume the same courtesy is afforded the President of the US.

At what level of world leader do you have to be brought into the loop on the Wizarding World for security purposes? How could this affect a religious world leader like the Pope?
gpt
Yes. In ages past, there was a lot of violence between the church and the wizarding community. Magic was seen as the result of bargaining with the devil and was an affront to the ‘true’ miracles of the holy trinity. This attitude was not improved by the cruelties committed by pure-blood supremacists of the wizarding community against muggles, which were quite extensive around the time of Hogwarts’ inception (hence Salazar Slytherin’s open involvement in the founding). 

It was not uncommon for the church to lead a village against an unmasked witch or wizard, and exorcisms were frequently held for children struggling to control their wild, untrained magic. Where these exorcisms were ‘successful’, or problem children handed over to the church to raise, the survivors grew up to become holy men and women who performed small miracles ‘by God’ with their unrefined magical will (no wands).

In today’s world, the church and the magical community is both more knowledgeable and connected with greater oversight by the Vatican and Ministry. Both communities are becoming far more progressive and brutalities against each other viewed as heinous crimes. It would not surprise me if Pope Francis was more welcoming of the arcane than his predecessors, and may spell a new age of acceptance of magic as a ‘god-given gift’ rather than a curse.