Word: imprimatur
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...Trappist Wiesinger's closely reasoned, footnote-fortified volume is a serious study of apparitions, demons, second sight, telepathy, witches, mediums, magic, radiaesthesia (divining), crystal gazing, hypnosis and diabolical possession. It is built upon a thesis which the author has constructed out of Thomist theology (the book carries the imprimatur) and depth psychology...
Fifty-one years ago, Bernard Shaw found his Boswell in Archibald Henderson, a stage-struck mathematics professor from the University of North Carolina. In 1911 and 1932, Henderson produced "authorized" biographies of Ireland's cranky genius. This book lacks the official imprimatur, because it was completed after Shaw's death, but it is the most massively, not to say crushingly, definitive Shaw biography ever written...
...Never Was, one of the most astonishing stories to come out of World War II. Ordinarily, the Martin story might induce more raised eyebrows than belief. But documented as it is, written by Britain's present Judge Advocate of the Fleet, Ewen Montagu, and coming with the imprimatur of Churchill's wartime Chief of Staff Lord Ismay, it can be enjoyed as one of the most bizarre stories of deception in recent military history...
Since the book does not bear imprimatur (official endorsement), the Church Censor obviously perceived its inadequacies. This means that its statements of Church policy are non-official--so that this book hardly serves to, refute Blanshard even for a Catholic...
Thus Spain last week was treated to the rare spectacle of laymen trying to suppress a religious book. The hierarchy, having given its imprimatur, was not likely to withdraw it. Historic truth must be placed before petty local susceptibilities, editorialized Madrid's Catholic daily, Ya, adding that the behavior of the saint's grandfather proved that divine grace is not a hereditary privilege...