Chapter V: On Certain Books of Special Subject Matter

11. Books are condemned in which there is detraction from God, or from the Blessed Virgin Mary, or the Saints, or the Catholic Church and its worship, or the Sacraments, or the Apostolic See. To the same judgment of reprobation are subjected those works in which the concept of inspiration of Sacred Scripture is perverted, or its extension too much restricted. Books also are prohibited which of set purpose afflict the ecclesiastical hierarchy, or the clerical or religious state, with insults.

12. Let it be forbidden to publish, read, or retain books in which sortileges, divination, magic, evocation of spirits, and other superstitions of this kind are taught or commended.

13. Books or writings which narrate new apparitions, revelations, visions, prophecies, miracles, or which introduce new devotions, even under the pretext that they are private, if they are published without legitimate license of the Superiors of the Church, are proscribed.

14. Likewise books are prohibited which establish duel, suicide, or divorce as licit, which treat of masonic sects or other societies of the same kind, and contend that they are useful and not pernicious to the Church and to civil society, and which defend errors proscribed by the Apostolic See.