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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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Lucian was emphatically not a friendly witness: his mockeries of Christianity earned him a reputation in Byzantium as the Anti-Christ and a place on the first edition of the Catholic Index of Forbidden Books.
Crucifixion, NOT fiction by Baldwin, Barry / Catholic Insight
In a previous age, someone in the Vatican could slap this story on the Index of Forbidden Books.
The gospel according to a Nobel novelist by GILMOUR PETER / U.S. Catholic
This is still the same Philip who enforced the censorship demanded by the Index of Forbidden Books, and the same Philip who tried to prevent Spanish youths from studying abroad, but Kamen marshals sufficient evidence to suggest that after 1559 banned literature still found its way into Spain, and Spanish students still enrolled in foreign universities.
Philip of Spain by Eire, Carlos, M.N. / Renaissance Quarterly
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