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Forbidden books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (146 words) |
 | Books have been outlawed and burned many times in history when they are considered to contain forbidden knowledge. |
| During the Chinese cultural revolution many books were forbidden and readers were killed. |
| During the military dictatorship in Brazil books were not forbidden, but many people were known to have disappeared because they were caught with books related to Communism. |
| CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Censorship of Books (9012 words) |
| Regarding them paragraph 11 says: All books are forbidden that insult God or the Blessed Virgin Mary or the saints or the Catholic Church and her rites, the sacraments or the Apostolic See. |
| Under the same penalty, and in like manner, books individually condemned by letters Apostolic are indicted by paragraph 47, in case the letters referred to are still in full force, and punish the reading of the condemned book with excommunication reserved to the pope. |
| From the previously mentioned arrangement of all forbidden books in three groups it clearly follows that the Church not only keeps within the limits of her right, but also forbids only as much as she is bound to forbid by reason of her office as teacher and guide of all the faithful. |
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