Secrets Behind The Forbidden Books.

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  • Author(s): Heneghan, Tom
  • Source:
    America Magazine: The Jesuit Review of Faith & Culture. 2/7/2005, Vol. 192 Issue 4, p22-27. 4p. 1 Illustration.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      BANNED books; CENSORSHIP; WOLF, Hubert; INDEX librorum prohibitorum; BOOKS & reading; CATHOLIC Church history; RELIGION
    • Abstract:
      The article focuses on forbidden books in Roman Catholic Church history. It was the most ambitious censorship drive the world has ever known, and the Reverend Hubert Wolf wants to reveal its secrets. Not only that, he wants to turn the Index of Forbidden Books inside out, posting on the Internet for all to see a guide to the confidential debates that lay behind it. Wolf is a German historian with a hefty budget and several dozen researchers who are poring over dusty Vatican files to show how the Roman Catholic Church tried and failed to control knowledge for over four centuries. 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.