Welcome to Daily TWiP, your daily dose of all the holidays and history we couldn’t cram into The Week in Preview. Centuries before the U.S. government was debating which books should be included in ...
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” Accordingly, Random House recently cancelled publication of “The Jewel of Medina” by Sherry Jones, a romance novel ...
Index librorum prohibitorum : cum regulis confectis per Patres à Tridentina Synodo delectos, auctoritate Sanctiss. D. N. Pii IIII. Pont. Max. comprobatus Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...
JUNE 14, 1966: The Vatican ended its policy of banning Catholics from reading certain texts after scrapping its four-centuries-old List of Prohibited Book on this day in 1966. The Index Librorum ...
Index librorum prohibitorum : Alexandri VII, Pontificis Maximi iussu editus Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...
THE BURNING BUSH—Sigrid Undset— Knopf. Authoress Undset’s latest novel stands a very slim chance of being put on the Pope’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum. If not exactly a manual for Roman Catholics, ...
In a Renaissance palace off St. Peter’s Square, twelve Vatican-appointed “qualifiers” daily scrutinize books from all over the world. They confer regularly with 24 consultants, and if a book is found ...