Section — Vermeersch, On Forbidden Books
II. Faculties of Reading and Retaining Prohibited Books
A) Separate faculties:
161.
"From the Audience of the Most Holy One held on the day __________.
"Our Most Holy Lord __________ by Divine Providence Pope __________, with me, the undersigned Secretary of the Sacred Congregation de Propaganda Fide, reporting, benignly conceded the faculty to __________:
"of reading and retaining books prohibited by the Apostolic See, even those expressly treating against Religion, for the effect of impugning them, which nevertheless he is to guard diligently, lest they come to the hands of others; except those astrological, judicial, superstitious, and expressly obscene.
"Given at Rome, from the Buildings of the Sacred Congregation, on the day and year as above."
"(Gratis)."
162. From the Audience of the Most Holy One held on the day __________.
"Our Most Holy Lord __________ by Divine Providence Pope __________, with me, the undersigned Secretary of the Sacred Congregation de Propaganda Fide, reporting, granted the faculty with the consent of the Ordinary to __________ R. __________
of reading and retaining, under diligent custody nevertheless lest they come to the hands of others, and with scandal removed, books prohibited by the Apostolic See, altogether excepting works expressly treating of obscene matters, as well as those defending heresy or schism of set purpose, or in any way overturning the very foundations of Religion.
"Given at Rome from the Buildings of the Sacred Congregation de Propaganda Fide, on the day and year aforesaid.
"(Gratis)."
B) Faculties numbered among quinquennial faculties, etc.
163. 1. In formula Extr. F:
"Of holding and reading books of condemned authors, even those expressly treating against Religion, for the effect of impugning them, which nevertheless he is to guard diligently, lest they come to the hands of others, except the expressly obscene."
164. 2. In formula R:
"Of retaining and reading books prohibited by the Apostolic See, even those expressly treating against Religion, for the effect of impugning them, etc., as in Extr. F."
165. 3. In formula O:
"Of retaining and reading books of heretics or infidels or apostates defending heresy, for the effect of impugning them, and other books of any author prohibited by name through Apostolic Letters."
166. 4. In formula Z:
"Of publishing books in the native language of the aforesaid Vicariate, yet so that he transmit to the Sacred Congregation copies of those books which he will publish in type.
"Of holding and reading prohibited books, especially books both of the Old and of the New Testament, and also of sacred History, published by heretics in vernacular languages; of communicating the faculty to the neophytes themselves, provided there is no danger of perversion."