A Topic of Moral Theology
What the Prohibition of a Book Forbids
Defending, publishing, reading, keeping, selling or lending a prohibited book: which acts the prohibition reaches, and which it does not.
The works themselves ask 4 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Loan of prohibited books · Edition · Retention of a book · Various words: · Books · Corrector · Defense of a prohibited book · Prescriptions of natural law · Prohibition of a book · Book, prohibited books · Bookbinder · Cooperation · Editor · Librarian · Loan of a prohibited book · Reading of a book · Sale of a prohibited book · Typographer · Workers of the typography · Writer to be condemned
In the manuals
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Institutions of Moral Theology (Institutiones Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. IV, On the Constitution *Officiorum ac munerum*, n. 1302 — What does the prohibition of books import? It imports the prohibition of reading those books, translating or rendering them into another language, retaining, defending, printing, publishing, selling, and donating them. F… Read in context →
Moral Enchiridion, Comprising Select Decrees and Definitions of the Holy See, of Ecumenical Councils and of the Sacred Roman Congregations (Enchiridion Morale), Fourth Edition
Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion (4th ed., 1905), On the Constitution *Officiorum ac Munerum*, n. 1302 — On the Prohibition of Books. "45. Prohibited books, until they are expurgated, can be retained until, with diligence applied, they are corrected." Proposition condemned by Alexander VII.Read in context →
Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology
Vol. II, Appendix: On the Censorship and Prohibition of Books, nn. 1237, 1238, 1239 & 1240 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
On the Prohibition and Censorship of Books (De prohibitione et censura librorum)
Chapter VII: What Acts the Prohibition of a Book Forbids by Positive Law, n. ¶1 — A full prohibition must be distinguished from a less full or imperfect prohibition.Read in context →
Ch. VII, I. On Perfect Prohibition, nn. 47, 48, 49, 50 & 51 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Ch. VII, II. On Less Perfect Prohibition, n. 52 — Prohibition of publishing 52. The prohibition of publishing a book without previous approval does not of itself prohibit the reading or retention of a book published without the prescribed censorship. For neither do the … Read in context →
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. 773 (5 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 · 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.)