"1934, the ""Sanctum Officium"" in Rome recommended that Rosenberg's book be put on the ""Index Librorum Prohibitorum"" (forbidden books list of the Catholic Church) for scorning and rejecting ""all dogmas of the Catholic Church, indeed the very fundamentals of the Christian religion"". During the War, Rosenberg outlined the future envisioned by the Hitler government for religion in Germany, with a thirty-point program for the future of the German churches. Among its articles: the National Reich Church of Germany was to claim exclusive control over all churches; publication of the Bible was to cease; crucifixes, Bibles and saints were to be"
"Index Librorum Prohibitorum The Index librorum prohibitorum () was a list of publications deemed heretical, or contrary to morality by the Sacred Congregation of the Index (a former Dicastery of the Roman Curia) and thus Catholics were forbidden to read them. There were scattered attempts to censor individual books before the sixteenth century, notably the ninth-century ""Decretum Glasianum"", but none of these were either official or widespread. Much later, a first version (the ""Pauline Index"") was promulgated by Pope Paul IV in 1559, which Paul F. Grendler believed marked ""the turning-point for the freedom of enquiry in the Catholic world"","
"with it. Index Librorum Prohibitorum The Index librorum prohibitorum () was a list of publications deemed heretical, or contrary to morality by the Sacred Congregation of the Index (a former Dicastery of the Roman Curia) and thus Catholics were forbidden to read them. There were scattered attempts to censor individual books before the sixteenth century, notably the ninth-century ""Decretum Glasianum"", but none of these were either official or widespread. Much later, a first version (the ""Pauline Index"") was promulgated by Pope Paul IV in 1559, which Paul F. Grendler believed marked ""the turning-point for the freedom of enquiry in the"
"a Bill against the unlicensed printing of books and in 1559 the Index Expurgatorius, or ""List of Prohibited Books"", was issued for the first time. The Index Expurgatorius is the most famous and long lasting example of ""bad books"" catalogues issued by the Roman Catholic Church, which presumed to be in authority over private thoughts and opinions, and suppressed views that went against its doctrines. The Index Expurgatorius was administered by the Roman Inquisition, but enforced by local government authorities, and went through 300 editions. Amongst others, it banned or censored books written by René Descartes, Giordano Bruno, Galileo Galilei,"
"A first version of the ""Index Librorum Prohibitorum"" (""List of Prohibited Books"") was promulgated by Pope Paul IV in 1559, and multiple revisions were made to it over the years. Some works named in the ""Index Librorum Prohibitorum"" are the writings of Desiderius Erasmus, a Catholic scholar who argued that the Comma Johanneum was probably forged and ""De revolutionibus orbium coelestium"", a treatise by Nicolaus Copernicus arguing for a heliocentric orbit of the earth, both works that at the time contradicted the Church's official stance on particular issues. The final (20th) edition appeared in 1948, and it was formally abolished"
"Koryon""). Catholic Bible Within Catholicism, the Bible comprises the whole 73-book canon recognized by the Catholic Church, including the deuterocanonical books. It is sometimes referred to as the Catholic Bible. The Catholic Bible is composed of the 46 books of the Old Testament and the 27 books of the New Testament. Of these books, Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, parts of Esther and parts of Daniel are deuterocanonical, and are found in the Bibles of Eastern Christianity. These books are usually not found in the Protestant Bible, but are sometimes included in a separate inter-testamental section"
"Catholic Bible Within Catholicism, the Bible comprises the whole 73-book canon recognized by the Catholic Church, including the deuterocanonical books. It is sometimes referred to as the Catholic Bible. The Catholic Bible is composed of the 46 books of the Old Testament and the 27 books of the New Testament. Of these books, Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, parts of Esther and parts of Daniel are deuterocanonical, and are found in the Bibles of Eastern Christianity. These books are usually not found in the Protestant Bible, but are sometimes included in a separate inter-testamental section called"
"supported recently by novelist and science writer Michael White. In 1758 the Catholic Church dropped the general prohibition of books advocating heliocentrism from the ""Index of Forbidden Books"". It did not, however, explicitly rescind the decisions issued by the Inquisition in its judgement of 1633 against Galileo, or lift the prohibition of uncensored versions of Copernicus's ""De Revolutionibus"" or Galileo's ""Dialogue"". The issue finally came to a head in 1820 when the Master of the Sacred Palace (the Church's chief censor), Filippo Anfossi, refused to license a book by a Catholic canon, Giuseppe Settele, because it openly treated heliocentrism as"
"beginning in the Early Middle Ages as centers of education, which became medieval universities, the springboard of many of Western Europe's later achievements. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum (""List of Prohibited Books"") was a list of publications prohibited by the Catholic Church. The promulgation of the ""Index"" marked the """"turning-point in the freedom of enquiry"""" in the Catholic world. The first Index was published in 1559 by the Sacred Congregation of the Roman Inquisition. The last edition of the Index appeared in 1948 and publication of the list ceased 1966. The avowed aim of the list was to protect the faith"
"times the list of forbidden books included writings by Jean-Paul Sartre, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, René Descartes, Francis Bacon, John Milton, and Blaise Pascal, among others, while other authors (such as Karl Marx or Adolf Hitler) were never put on the ""Index"". Canadian distributor of Valtorta's works, Leo A. Brodeur, has argued that, at the moment, the official position of the Catholic Church with respect to the book is less than clear. While he admitted that the ""notes for the guidance of the faithful"" that Cardinal Ratzinger mentioned as still valid in his letter to Bishop Boland were severe"
"a canon catalogue, and the 5th part is a catalogue of apocryphal writings which are to be rejected. The canon catalogue gives all 27 books of the ""Catholic New Testament"". , lists the following New Testament books according to Jerome, (c. 394), from his ""Epistle"" 53: Augustine of Hippo declared that one is to ""prefer those that are received by all Catholic Churches to those which some of them do not receive. Among those, again, which are not received by all, he will prefer such as have the sanction of the greater number and those of greater authority, to such"
"Pope John XXIII, the Holy Office condemned the published work and included it in the ""Index Librorum Prohibitorum"". The decree was published also on ""L'Osservatore Romano"" of 6 January 1960, accompanied by a front-page unsigned article under the heading ""A Badly Fictionalized Life of Jesus"". The book was placed on the Index because of its claim to supernatural guidance. The Vatican newspaper republished the content of the decree on 1 December 1961, together with an explanatory note, as mentioned by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in his letter 144/58 of 31 January"
"formerly the official Bible of the Roman Catholic Church. In general, among Christian denominations, the New Testament canon is an agreed-upon list of 27 books, although book order can vary. The book order is the same in the Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant traditions. The Slavonic, Armenian and Ethiopian traditions have different New Testament book orders. Books of the Bible Different religious groups include different books in their biblical canons, in varying orders, and sometimes divide or combine books. Christian Bibles range from the 73 books of the Catholic Church canon, the 66 books of the canon of some"
"Catholic Apostolic and Roman Church; and the same is forbidden to those of the said religion called Reformed, upon penalty of being punished with especial severity... XXI. Books concerning the said religion called Reformed may not be printed and publicly sold, except in cities and places where the public exercise of the said religion is permitted. XXII. We ordain that there shall be no difference or distinction made in respect to the said religion, in receiving pupils to be instructed in universities, colleges, and schools; nor in receiving the sick and poor into hospitals, retreats, and public charities.</poem> The source"
"but are regarded as non-canonical by the Catholic Church and are therefore not included in modern Catholic Bibles. Various books that were never canonized by any church, but are known to have existed in antiquity, are similar to the New Testament and often claim apostolic authorship, are known as the New Testament apocrypha. Some of these writings have been cited as scripture by early Christians, but since the fifth century a widespread consensus has emerged limiting the New Testament to the 27 books of the modern canon. Thus Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Protestant churches generally do not view these"
"press. Their sale is also restricted to officially sanctioned churches, with online sales having been recently cracked down upon. Religious literature is not readily available or universally tolerated. In January 2016, five people were arrested for simply ""buying and selling officially forbidden Christian devotionals"". They were sentenced to 3-7 years in jail. China banned a book titled《性风俗》 ""Xing Fengsu"" (""Sexual Customs"") which insulted Islam and placed its authors under arrest in 1989 after protests in Lanzhou and Beijing by Chinese Hui Muslims, during which the Chinese police provided protection to the Hui Muslim protesters, and the Chinese government organized public"
"Proprio ""Alloquentes Proxime"" of Pope Benedict XV; the rules on the reading of books were again reelaborated in the new ""Codex Iuris Canonici"". From 1917 onward, the Holy Office (again) took care of the Index. While individual books continued to be forbidden, the last edition of the Index to be published appeared in 1948. This 20th edition contained 4,000 titles censored for various reasons: heresy, moral deficiency, sexual explicitness, and so on. That some atheists, such as Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, were not included was due to the general (Tridentine) rule that heretical works (""i.e."", works that contradict Catholic dogma) are"
"excluding the ""Book of Psalms"", was completed and sent to the United States Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee to determine if it was a suitable Catholic translation. In June 2003, another revision of the ""Book of Psalms"" was completed but was rejected by the Ad Hoc Committee. In September 2008, the Ad Hoc Committee accepted the final book of the Old Testament, namely, ""Jeremiah"". In November of that year, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops approved the complete Old Testament, including footnotes and introductions, but it would not permit it to be published with the ""Book of Psalms"" of 1991."
"the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (list of prohibited books) and the condemnation of Salman Rushdie's novel ""The Satanic Verses"" by Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Images of the Islamic figure Muhammad are also regularly censored. In some secular countries, this is sometimes done to prevent hurting religious sentiments. The content of school textbooks is often the issue of debate, since their target audience is young people, and the term ""whitewashing"" is the one commonly used to refer to removal of critical or conflicting events. The reporting of military atrocities in history is extremely controversial, as in the case of The Holocaust"
"Institute, including Joseph Guibord, appealed to Rome against this pastoral, but received no answer. On July 7, 1869, Rome added the institute's ""Annuaire"" for the year 1868 to the Catholic Church's Index of prohibited books. Bishop Bourget published another pastoral letter, drawing attention to this decision and pointing out the Church had decreed that no Catholic was to belong to the Institute while it taught pernicious doctrines, nor to keep, publish or read the 1868 Annuaire. He stated that any person who persisted in keeping or reading the Annuaire, or in belonging to the Institute, would be deprived of the"
"and he ordered the nudes of ""The Last Judgment"" in the Sistine Chapel be painted more modestly (a request that Michelangelo ignored) (the beginning of the Vatican's Fig leaf campaign). Paul IV also introduced the Index Librorum Prohibitorum or ""Index of Prohibited Books"" to Venice, then an independent and prosperous trading state, in order to crack down on the growing threat of Protestantism. Under his authority, all books written by Protestants were banned, together with Italian and German translations of the Latin Bible. Paul IV's health began to break down in May 1559. He rallied in July, holding public audiences"
"are banned as well, for example ""Schindler's List"" is banned for promoting Zionist sympathy, a position justified by the fact that Lebanon remains officially at war with Israel. Other books and movies were banned for supposedly insulting religion, as the laws strictly prohibit religious insults, and protects each person from such insults, for example ""The Da Vinci Code"" and ""The Satanic Verses"" but can now be found in major bookstores. On the morning of 16 September 2015, Lebanese security forces used excessive force in a crackdown on demonstrators protesting rampant corruption and poor public services. The protests took place near"
"regulations (as well as local customs and vigilante actions) governed what could and could not be published. For example, the United States Customs Service banned James Joyce's ""Ulysses"" by refusing to allow it to be imported into the United States. The Roman Catholic Church's ""Index Librorum Prohibitorum"" carried great weight among Catholics and amounted to an effective and instant boycott of any book appearing on it. Boston's Watch and Ward Society, a largely Protestant creation inspired by Anthony Comstock, made ""banned in Boston"" a national by-word. In 1959 Grove Press published an unexpurgated version of ""Lady Chatterley's Lover"" by D."
"Bible literally. In 2001 the Alamogordo Christ Community Church in New Mexico burned hundreds of copies of the Harry Potter books. Jack Brock, leader of the church, said the books were an abomination because they inspired children to study the occult. He and his followers admitted they have never read any of the books, and tossed in some Stephen King novels. Venezuelan scholar Fernando Baez, in a study of the history of censorship and book destruction commented, ""There is more than one way to destroy a book, upon being denied a city permit to burn books, the Rev. Douglas Taylor"
"hid them using the title ""Poema Sacrum de Contemptu mundi"". There are other prohibited books included in the old Dominican collection are for instance the ""Bibliotecha Interpretum"" (1638) by Xantes Mariales, books by Zacharia Pasqualigi and three different editions of the ""Ecclesiastical History"" by Alessandro Natale (he became a prohibited author as he defended the doctrine of the ""Gallican Church""), a Venetian one of 1732 by Amat the Graveson, a parisian one of 1740 and a napolitean one of 1740 by Roncaglia. Because of the ecclesiastical censorship, the books printed during the 16th century in the cities of Basel, Frankfurt"
"among his followers. However, these books are ordered last in the German-language Luther Bible to this day. Luther also removed the so-called ""deuterocanonical"" books from the Old Testament of his translation of the Bible, placing them in the ""Apocrypha, that are books which are not considered equal to the Holy Scriptures, but are useful and good to read"". In light of Martin Luther's demands, the Council of Trent on 8 April 1546 approved the present Catholic Bible canon, which includes the Deuterocanonical Books, and the decision was confirmed by an anathema by vote (24 yea, 15 nay, 16 abstain). The"
"would still encourage children to read the series, which Donohue says ""denigrates Christianity"" and promotes ""atheism for kids"", citing author Philip Pullman as saying that he is ""trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief."" Donohue hopes that ""the film [will fail] to meet box office expectations and that [Pullman's] books attract few buyers."" The call for a boycott resulted in action by some Catholic groups in the US and Canada, and a Catholic school board in Ontario has ordered the source novel removed from its library shelves. Pullman has since said that the books do not have a religious"
"and which lasted less than a year, being then replaced by what was called the ""Tridentine Index"" (because it was authorized at the Council of Trent), which relaxed aspects of the ""Pauline Index"" that had been criticized and had prevented its acceptance. The 20th and final edition appeared in 1948, and the ""Index"" was formally abolished on 14 June 1966 by Pope Paul VI. The aim of the list was to protect the faith and morals of the faithful by preventing the reading of theologically, culturally, and politically disruptive books. Books thought to contain such errors included works by astronomers"
"right to vote or be voted for, and is to be declared unfit for all of them, and in more serious cases he is to be reduced to the lay state."" These punishments were of public character and not subject to secrecy. As Secretary of the Holy Office, Ottaviani was responsible for the banning of a number of books, which would accordingly have been included in any new edition of the ""Index Librorum Prohibitorum"" (Index of Prohibited Books). The ""Index"", the last edition of which had been published in 1948, was abolished by Pope Paul VI in 1966. On 6"
"revision project, work began in 2013 with the creation of an editorial board made up of five people from the Catholic Biblical Association (CBA). The revision is now underway and, after the necessary approvals from the bishops and the Vatican, is expected to be done around the year 2025. Bibles used by Catholics differ in the number and order of books from those typically found in bibles used by Protestants, as Catholic bibles remained unchanged following the Reformation and so retain seven books that were rejected principally by Martin Luther. Its canon of Old Testament texts is somewhat larger than"
"these charges is often difficult as some religious traditions permit only the religious authorities (clergy) to interpret doctrine and the interpretation is usually dogmatic. For instance, the Catholic Church banned hundreds of books on such grounds and maintained the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (""list of prohibited books""), most of which were writings that the Church's Holy Office had deemed dangerous, until the Index's abolishment in 1965. The invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg around 1440 changed the nature of book publishing. As of the 16th century, in most European countries both the church and governments attempted to regulate and"
"reception of Savonarola's writings, including ""Infelix ego"", assisted in their suppression by the Roman Catholic Church. While ""Infelix ego"" was translated into Italian, French, German, Flemish, and Spanish, there were more editions of it in English than in any other language (21), all appearing between 1534 and 1578. Savonarola's psalm meditations were among the few works of his not to be placed on the ""Index Librorum Prohibitorum"", the Church's list of banned books, by Pope Paul IV in 1559, during the height of the Counter-Reformation. While the Dominican order was successful in preventing ""all"" of Savonarola's works being placed on"
"the work to prior ecclesiastical approval. In 1950, Maria Valtorta signed a contract with the publisher Emilio Pisani, who between 1956 and 1959 printed the work in four volumes, the first of which was titled ""The Poem of Jesus"" and the others ""The Poem of the Man-God"". On 16 December 1959, the Congregation of the Holy Office ordered the 4-volume work entitled ""The Poem of the Man-God"" placed on the Index of Forbidden Books. Pope John XXIII approved the decree and directed that the condemnation be published. The decree was then promulgated by the Holy Office on January 5, 1960."