A Topic of Moral Theology
Books to Be Submitted to Previous Censure
Which books and writings must be shown before printing, and which periodicals.
The works themselves ask 3 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Newspapers · Previous censure · Bishop · Book, prohibited books · Books condemned absolutely or restrictively by the General Decrees · Censorship of books · Clerics · Non-exempt religious · Periodic pamphlets · Secular clerics · All religious · Bible · Book · Books of philosophy · Books of social science · Books of theology · Imprimatur · Indulgences · Layman · Periodical publications · Pictures · Pius IX · Pius X · Religion
In the manuals
Read the manuals side by side → — each work's whole treatment in its own column
On the Prohibition and Censorship of Books (De prohibitione et censura librorum)
Tit. II, Chapter III: On Books to Be Submitted to Previous Censure, n. ¶1 — Argument of the chapter Once the general rule concerning books which are to be submitted to previous censure has been handed down, a special sanction concerning secular clerics is enacted.Read in context →
Tit. II, Ch. III, Article 41, n. ¶1 — All the faithful are bound to submit to previous ecclesiastical censure at least those books which regard the divine Scriptures, Sacred Theology, ecclesiastical History, Canon Law, natural Theology, Ethics, or other reli… Read in context →
Tit. II, Ch. III, Art. 41, I. On Books, n. 117 — What books are 117. 1. Books, therefore not writings, nor journals, nor sheets, nor periodic pamphlets, at least of smaller bulk. In itself, however, there are comprehended periodic publications of greater bulk, whose in… Read in context →
Tit. II, Ch. III, Art. 41, II. On Any Writings Whatever, n. 118 — Comparison with the former law 118. 1. While in that former part the decree of Pius IX, June 2, 1848, for the Roman dominion was reported almost to the letter, the other part has been so furnished that, once it has been … Read in context →
Tit. II, Ch. III, Article 42, n. ¶1 — Men of the secular clergy should not publish even books which treat of arts and merely natural sciences without consulting their Ordinaries, so that they may furnish an example of an obedient mind toward them. The same m… Read in context →
Tit. II, Ch. III, Art. 42, I. On Books, n. 119 — The obligation is imposed 119. 1. Contrary to what several have thought, whom in the earlier editions we followed, the propriety of the words seems to demand that we take the sanction as concerning a true precept, to whi… Read in context →
Tit. II, Ch. III, Art. 42, II. On Periodic Sheets, n. 120 — Stricter disposition of the other part 120. 1. By the other part of the present article more is required than the simple manifestation of counsel; ecclesiastical men must first obtain the permission of the Ordinaries bef… Read in context →
A Handbook of Moral Theology (Koch–Preuss)
Vol. IV, Pt. III, Ch. VI, Section 1: The Preventive Censorship of Books, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, ¶6, ¶7, ¶8, ¶9, ¶10 & ¶11 (11 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. I, Special Moral Theology, Treatise: On Divine Faith, Fourth Part: On the Vices …, Question Two: On Sins Indi…, Article III: On the Reading and Dissemination of Prohibited Writings, nn. 778 & 779 (26 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading The Prior Censorship of Books — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Tanquerey · Marc, Institutiones Morales · 1917 Code of Canon Law — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)