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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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Thanks to the recent opening of the archives of the former Holy Office (now the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) and of what was once known as the Sacred Congregation of the Index, three scholars have examined the work of six authors whose writings came to the attention of the Vatican in the late nineteenth century because they seemed to support the theory of evolution. |
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