Word: librorum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Started by Pope St. Gelasius in the 5th century, the Index Librorum Prohibitorum today generally condemns books on religion not approved by Catholic authorities and books "against faith and morals," including all Communist books. Specifically condemned are some 6,000 works by 4,000 authors (among them: Addison, Balzac, Dumas, father and son, Kant, Spinoza, Voltaire), which Catholics may not read without special permission...
...Vatican rarely bans the work of specific authors. It is left to local bishops or Roman Catholic readers themselves to decide what books fall into forbidden categories. Last week, nonetheless, the Vatican proscribed the work of two widely read modern authors, and added their books to the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (TIME, April 28). The authors...
When Redmond Burke was a student at the University of Illinois, he had some spiritual troubles over his required reading. As a Roman Catholic, he knew that he was forbidden, under pain of sin, to read books listed in the Vatican's Index Librorum Prohibitorum-the index of forbidden books. But like most Catholics (and non-Catholics) he had only a dim notion of how the church's book censorship operated and what, exactly, it forbade...