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Index librorum prohibitorum |
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Index librorum prohibitorum(Latin; Index of Forbidden Books) List of books considered dangerous to the faith or morals of Catholics. Compiled by official Roman Catholic censors, the Index was never a complete catalog of forbidden reading; it contained only works that the ecclesiastical authority was asked to act on. Though the church's concern over books is much older, the first catalog of banned books to be called an index was published in 1559. Publication of the list ceased in 1966, and it was relegated to the status of a historic document. Index librorum prohibitorum list of forbidden books compiled by Roman Catholic Church. [Christian Hist.: NCE, 1323] See : Censorship |
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They include the fact that both the Holy Office and the Congregation of the Index were keenly aware that the Vatican's peremptory condemnation of scientific hypotheses would arouse memories of the Galileo affair and bring further discredit to the church. Thus "the decision of the Congregation of the Index in Rome in 1616," he suggests, "would probably never have happened in Protestant lands" (186)--and indeed it never did. The book was banned by the Congregation of the Index and remained on its list of prohibited books until 1835. |
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