A Topic of Moral Theology
By What Power Books Are Prohibited
Who can prohibit a book — the Apostolic See, the Congregations, bishops and others — and by what authority.
The works themselves ask 1 question under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Ordinary of the place · Bishop · Books condemned absolutely or restrictively by the General Decrees · Prohibition of a book · Clauses: · Clement VIII · Congregation of the Index · Holy Office · Inter multiplices · Regular superior · Regulars · Also as delegate of the Apostolic See · Apostolic See · Book, prohibited books · Cause of faith · Delegation of the Holy See · Exemption from the laws of the Index · Index of prohibited books · Leo XII · Paul III · Pius IX · Religious superior · Sacred Congregation of Rites
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)
Chapter IX: By What Power Books Are Prohibited, nn. 62, 63 & 64 (3 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, n. 777 (8 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 · Koch–Preuss · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · 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.)