A Topic of Moral Theology
The History of Prohibition and Censorship
How the prohibition of books and their prior censorship grew up, from the burning of the books at Ephesus to the Index and its Congregation.
In the index as Spanish Index · Hilgers · Various Indexes · Benedict XIV · Clement VIII · Ecumenical Council · Gelasius · Historical notes · Leo XIII · Sixtus V · University of Cologne · *Opera omnia* on the Index · Alexander VI · Alexander VII · All works · Alphonsus de’ Liguori, St. · Arius · Bellarmin's Controversies · Catholic notes in a book of a heretic · Classes of condemned works · Clauses: · Congregation of the Index · De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis · Francis de Victoria, Relectiones
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)
Ch. I, I. On the Prohibition of Books, nn. 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Ch. I, II. On the Previous Censorship of Books, nn. 7, 8 & 9 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
A Handbook of Moral Theology (Koch–Preuss)
Vol. IV, Pt. III, Ch. VI, Section 3: The Index of Forbidden Books, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, ¶6, ¶7, ¶8, ¶9 & ¶10 (10 passages — hover a number to read it)
Theologia Moralis Sancti Alphonsi: Reduced into a Compendium
Vol. II, Treatise on Censures, Appendix III: On Censures …, § I. On Excommunications Latae Sententiae Reserved to the Roman Pontiff in a Special Manner, nn. ¶4, ¶5, ¶6 & ¶1705 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Censorship and Prohibition of Books — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion (4th ed., 1905) · Tanquerey · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis · 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.)