Word: expurgatorius
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...even lays these particular pedagogues open to the now questionable charge of having believed in President Hoover. The only word of praise that Mr. Dyer has for the book is that it "sounds like New England." One is load to believe that Dyer favors the N.R.A. The index expurgatorius follows...
...Spanish women to be treated as medical cases. Padre Pio and Therese Neumann were forbidden to receive pilgrims. Padre Pio was ordered to cease singing mass in the Apulian village where a cult almost of sainthood has grown up around him. The Holy Office put on the Index Expurgatorius the large amount of mystic literature written around Padre Pio, and suppressed a community of women called the "Little Hosts" which, founded in his honor, had grown too impassioned and hysterical. Also disciplined were the "Little Victims of Christ," the Order of St. Bridget of Sweden, and a Carmelite group...
...Anti-Defamation League prosecuted a flank attack on Mr. Crowell. He promised to purge Roget's in his new edition. As surety the other day he sent Mr. Blumenthal proofs of now inoffensive pages. Therefore last week Jews lifted Crowell's Roget's "from their index expurgatorius...
Just too late to be included in the latest edition of the Papal Index Expurgatorius appears Iconoclast Henry Louis Mencken's Treatise on the Gods. The next Index will certainly list it. For Mencken, "quite devoid of the religious impulse," makes of religion his unholy hobby, traces its history with ingenuity, learning, logic, comes to the conclusion that Christianity is on the decline, is glad of his conclusion. Says Mencken: "Everything that we are we owe to Satan and his bootleg apples...
There must be pleasure, too, for those agents provacateurs in donning figurative false beards and going out on the vice-hunt, with their Index Expurgatorius in one hand and sufficient funds in the other to provide them with the latest and freshest in potentially risque literature. The two-kinds-of-falsehood idea should furnish an analogy for a two-purposes-in-reading theory, by which what must be kept with holy zeal from the unconcenrated eyes of ordinary mortals can be read with propriety, and of course without danger to their purity of soul, by these unofficial collagues of Boston...