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  Index Librorum Prohibitorum - LoveToKnow 1911
INDEX LIBRORUM PROHIBITORUM, the title of the official list of those books which on doctrinal or moral grounds the Roman Catholic Church authoritatively forbids the members of her communion to read or to possess, irrespective of works forbidden by the general rules on the subject.
The document is for the most part an enumeration of such apocryphal works as by their titles might be supposed to be part of Holy Scripture (the "Acts" of Philip, Thomas and Peter, and the Gospels of Thaddaeus, Matthias, Peter, James the Less and others).
Already, at the Vatican Council, several bishops had submitted requests for a reform of the Index, but the Council was not able to deal with the question.
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 Index Librorum Prohibitorum - Some notable writers on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum
The Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("List of Prohibited Books") is a list of publications which the Catholic Church censored for being a danger to itself and the faith of its members.
Prohibitions made by other congregations (mostly the Holy Office) were simply passed on to the Congregation of the Index, where the final decrees were drafted and made public, after approval of the Pope (who always had the possibility to condemn an author personally—only a few examples, such as Lamennais and Hermes).
The Index as an official list having force of law was abolished in 1966 under Pope Paul VI, following the end of the Second Vatican Council and largely due to practical considerations.
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 Index Librorum Prohibitorum Encyclopedia Article @ HigherPower.org (Higher Power)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Venetiis, M. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("List of Prohibited Books") is a list of publications which the Catholic Church censored for being a danger to itself and the faith of its members.
Prohibitions made by other congregations (mostly the Holy Office) were simply passed on to the Congregation of the Index, where the final decrees were drafted and made public, after approval of the Pope (who always had the possibility to condemn an author personally—only a few examples, such as Lamennais and Hermes).
"Index of Prohibited Books", The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913: "The first Roman Index of Prohibited Books (Index librorum prohibitorum), published in 1559 under Paul IV, was very severe, and was therefore mitigated under that pontiff by decree of the Holy Office of 14 June of the same year.
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 Index Librorum Prohibitorum information - Search.com
Venetiis, M. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("List of Prohibited Books") is a list of publications which the Catholic Church censored for being a danger to itself and the faith of its members.
The Index was regularly updated until the 1948 edition.
"Index of Prohibited Books", The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913: "The first Roman Index of Prohibited Books (Index librorum prohibitorum), published in 1559 under Paul IV, was very severe, and was therefore mitigated under that pontiff by decree of the Holy Office of 14 June of the same year.
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 INDEX LIBRORUM PROHIBI... - Online Information article about INDEX LIBRORUM PROHIBI...
Index " of'pernicious and forbidden books, a second edition of which appeared in 1550.
March accordingly were published, with papal approval, the Index librorum prohibitorum, which continued to be reprinted and brought down to date, and the " Ten Rules " which, supplemented and explained by See also:
The new Index, which omits works anterior to 1600 as well as a great number of others included in the old catalogue, appeared in 19oo.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Index Librorum Prohibitorum
The Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("List of Prohibited Books") is a list of publications censored by the Catholic Church.
The Congregation of the Index was abolished in 1917, when the rules on the reading of books were again reelaborated in the new Codex Iuris Canonici.
Not on the Index were Aristophanes, Juvenal, François Rabelais, John Cleland, James Joyce, and D.
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 Index Librorum Prohibitorum - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about 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.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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 Index librorum prohibitorum - Encyclopedia.com
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.
So rest in peace, Index Librorum Prohibitorum, for we are glad to see you gone, and do not...
Unmasked: The extraordinary story of the prim Victorian husband, his 2,000 lovers and the birth of modern erotica.
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 Index Librorum Prohibitorum - phatmass phorum
The Roman Index proves, not the Church's intolerance, but her zeal for the salvation of souls.
I think doing away with the Index was based on the same faulty logic that caused the Church to do away with abstinence from meat on Fridays -- the bishops had the mistaken idea that the laity were now better educated, more mature, and had enough self-discipline to handle it ourselves.
The index was thrown out along with much personal piety, bishops who pastored their flocks and alter rails.
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 Index Librorum Prohibitorum
The Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Index of Prohibited Books)—also called Index Expurgatorius—is a list of publications which Roman Catholics were banned from reading, "pernicious books", and also the rules of the Church relating to books.
The index was regularly updated until the 1948 edition, with materials being added by either the Congregation or the Pope.
Some of the Index's actions were of a definite political content: in 1926, the Action Française magazine, espousing far-right French causes, was put in the Index.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Index of Prohibited Books
Index of Prohibited Books, or simply "Index", is used in a restricted sense to signify the exact list or catalogue of books, the reading of which was once forbidden to Catholics by the highest ecclesiastical authority.
Roman "Index of Prohibited Books" (Index librorum prohibitorum), published in 1559 under Paul IV, was very severe, and was therefore mitigated under that pontiff by decree of the Holy Office of 14 June of the same year.
Concerning the curious indexes of 1590 and 1593, which were printed but never promulgated see Hilgers, "Der Index der verbotenen Bücher", 12 sq., 524 sqq., 529 sqq.
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 Index Librorum Prohibitorum
The Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Index of Prohibited Books) is a list of publications which Roman Catholics were banned from reading, "pernicious books", and also the rules of the Church relating to books.
The index was ended in 1966 under Pope Paul VI.
The index was regularly updated until the 20th edition of 1948 with materials being added by either the Congregation or the Pope.
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 Index Librorum Prohibitorum - Timeline Index
The Pauline index, as it became known, was the first in a long succession of papal indexes, forty-two in all.
The purpose of these indexes was to guide censors in their decisions of what publications to authorize and which to disallow, for printers were not free to publish books without official permission.
Although the council closed before the task of the commission was completed, the new Tridentine index was taken up by Pope Pius IV and published in 1564 by Paulus Manutius in Rome.
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 Index Librorum Prohibitorum
The 1948 edition of Index Librorum Prohibitorum is included in the "Beacon for Freedom of Expression" data base.
The first edition of Index Librorum Prohibitorum was published in 1559, and subsequently published in 19 editions by different popes through the centuries.
The first "Index of Forbidden Books", banned for their heretical or ideologically dangerous content, was drawn up by order of Pope Paul IV and published in 1559 by the Sacred Congregation of the Roman Inquisition.
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 Index, in the Roman Catholic Church. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Catholics are forbidden, as a natural part of ethics, to read anything they know may endanger their faith or moral life; the Index was a partial guide to such literature.
The last edition of the Index was published in 1948.
In 1966 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (formerly, the Holy Office) announced that the Index and its related penalties of excommunication would no longer have the force of law in the church.
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 index librorum prohibitorum:
the first edition of the index librorum prohibitorum, dated 1557 was published by pope paul iv.
It was only in 1909 that this Moderatio Indicis librorum prohibitorum (Mitigation of the Index of Prohibited Books) was rediscovered in Codex Vaticanus lat.
Index Librorum Prohibitorum är namnet på den katolska kyrkans lista över förbjudna böcker.
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 Index Librorum Prohibitorum - bedeutung definition erklärung glossar zu Index Librorum Prohibitorum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Der Index Librorum Prohibitorum war ein Verzeichnis der für jeden Katholiken verbindlich verbotenen Bücher.
Erstmals erschien der Index Librorum Prohibitorum 1559, die letzte amtliche Ausgabe erschien 1948 bis 1962.
Der Index wurde 1967 unter Papst Paul VI.
index_librorum_prohibitorum.lexikona.de /art/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum.html   (643 words)

  
 America | The National Catholic Weekly - Secrets BehindThe Forbidden Books
The Vatican offices that published the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, which were active from 1559 until 1966, listed books that Catholics should neither own nor read under pain of excommunication.
During the index’s long life, the public was told about the latest bans but not the reasons for them.
The Index condemned The Myth of the 20th Century by the Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg in 1934 and examined Mein Kampf for three years, but it balked at taking on the chancellor of Germany.
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 Index Librorum Prohibitorum
Index Librorum Prohibitorum, 1559: The first list of banned and recommended books.
Books were condemned mostly for doctrinal reasons or for criticizing or seeming to criticize the Papacy and the Church, or for moral reasons.
1966: The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (Successor to the Holy Office) under Pope Paul VI terminated publication; the Index thus became no longer a list of works that Catholics were forbidden to read because of possible corruption of faith and morals, but rather a historic document.
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 :::► Dictionary of Meaning www.dictionary-of-meaning.com ◄:::
The Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("List of Prohibited Books") is a list of publications which the Roman Catholic Church Roman Catholic Church censored_for_being a danger to itself and the faith of its members.
Among the notable writers on the list were Desiderius Erasmus, Giordano Bruno, Laurence Sterne, Voltaire, Daniel Defoe, Nicolaus Copernicus, Honoré de Balzac, Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as the Dutch sexologist Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, author of the sex manual The Perfect Marriage.
There you will find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Index librorum prohibitorum.
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 Burke's Corner: Index Librorum Prohibitorum
I'm not a fan of lazy invocations of '1950s' values', but what White describes as "parod[ies] of middle class respectability" are much more appealing to the father of an 8 year old than references to a character having "his tongue in your mom's mouth".
All of which tempts me to re-establish for my daughter's reading an old and much-maligned custom - the Index of Forbidden Books.
The author is a communitarian conservative and a post-liberal anglican...
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 Object: Index Librorum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Index librorum prohibitorum, a comprehensive list of books banned by the Catholic Church, was first published under the auspices of Paul IV in 1559.
It forbade the possession and reading of Muslim, Jewish, and Protestant heresies, attempted to suppress internal assaults on the faith such as Erasmus' and Luther's calls for reforms, and prohibited those works that threatened the authority of ecclesiastical leaders because of populist or mystical themes.
After 300 editions and more than four hundred years, the Index was finally abolished in 1966.
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