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Index Librorum Prohibitorum
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Index Librorum Prohibitorum

The list of books formerly officially forbidden to members of the Roman Catholic Church. The process of condemning books and bringing the Index up to date was carried out by a congregation of cardinals, consultors, and examiners from the 16th century until its abolition in 1966.



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Bishop Arethas and other Byzantines regarded him as the Anti-Christ; he was included in the first edition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1557); on September 3, 1766, he was the protagonist villain in a musical drama called 'Lucian of Samosata the Hapless Atheist' presented by the Jesuit School at Regenshurg; Lord Macaulay dubbed him 'The Voltaire of Antiquity'.
Early questions about Jesus by Baldwin, Barry / Catholic Insight
1571 Pope Paul IV issues the first formal Index Librorum Prohibitorum, or Index of Prohibited Books.
Index: a Selective Timeline of Censorship 1235-2003 by Conscience
It was in 1966 that the Catholic Church ceased publication of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Index of Prohibited Books), the list of banned books that began with an Index of Forbidden Works promulgated by Gelasius in Rome in the year 496.
Note on an index worth shelving by Doyle, Brian / U.S. Catholic
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