A Topic of Moral Theology
The Prelates Set Over the Censure of Books
Who exercises the previous censure — the Apostolic See, the Congregations, bishops, regular superiors — and their several competences.
The works themselves ask 6 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Bishop · Regulars · Apostolic Vicar · Apostolic missionaries · Master of the Sacred Palace · Alexander VII · Book · Books condemned absolutely or restrictively by the General Decrees · Canonization · Cardinals · Catechisms · Cause of Beatification · City · Clement VIII · Collections of Decrees of Sacred Congregations · Congregation de Propaganda Fide · Council of Trent · Ecumenical Council · Edition · Instruction of Clement VIII · Ordinary of the place · Pamphlets and books of prayers · Pilgrims · Pontifical State
In the manuals
On the Prohibition and Censorship of Books (De prohibitione et censura librorum)
Tit. II, Chapter I: On the Prelates Set Over the Censure of Books, n. ¶1 — Subject of the chapter This chapter first proposes the censures which are reserved to the Holy See or subject to a special condition; then it defines the Prelate to be approached by seculars and by regulars.Read in context →
Tit. II, Ch. I, Article 30, n. ¶1 — In whose hands there is the power of approving or permitting editions and versions of the sacred Bibles is clear from those things which were established above (n. 7). 105 bis. By this article we are thrown back to the s… Read in context →
Tit. II, Ch. I, Article 31, nn. ¶1 & 106 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Tit. II, Ch. I, Article 32, nn. ¶1 & 107 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Tit. II, Ch. I, Article 33, nn. ¶1 & 108 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Tit. II, Ch. I, Article 34, nn. ¶1 & 109 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Tit. II, Ch. I, Article 35, nn. ¶1, 110, 111 & 112 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Tit. II, Ch. I, Article 36, nn. ¶1 & 113 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Tit. II, Ch. I, Article 37, nn. ¶1 & 114 (2 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 · 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.)