The Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Index of Forbidden Books) was issued by Pope Paul IV in 1559.
Many versions of the index were later created with the final, twentieth, version being issued in 1948.
The index was abolished on June 14, 1966 by Pope Paul VI.
The Index of Forbidden Books was created by the Catholic Church, specifically by the Congregation of the Index under the authority of the Pope. It was a list of publications deemed to be heretical, immoral, or otherwise unfit for Catholics to read. The Index was discontinued and eventually abolished in the 20th century.
You are thinking of the Index of Forbidden Books, which was last updated in the 1940's and totally disbanded by Pope Paul VI in the 1960's. See link below:
The principle of a list of forbidden books was adopted at the Fifth Lateran Council in 1515, then confirmed by the Council of Trent in 1546. The first edition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, dated 1557 was published by Pope Paul IV. The 32nd edition, published in 1948 included 4000 titles. The Index was suppressed in 1966. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/indexlibrorum.html It was the best way of keeping us faith ful to the Church. I request it be reinstated.
Roman Catholic AnswerYour question is a little confusing. A censor in the Catholic Church: there is a censor in each diocese, they do NOT ban books, they read them and issue a nihil obstat meaning that nothing hinders the publication of the work reviewed. They can refuse a nihil obstat to a book that does not agree with Church teaching, but they can not ban its publication. The publication that the Church kept up until the early 1960's was commonly known as the Index or Index of Forbidden Books. This was a list of books that Catholics were only to read if they got special permission from their Bishop. Any reasonable request was usually granted. Attached below is the latest Index published in 1948, after June 1966 it was completely abolished by Pope Paul VI and has not been published or enforced since then.The Church placed books on the Index which were considered heretical or anti-Catholic in nature and were banned for reading by Catholics.AnswerThe Catholic Church formerly had a list of banned books, known as the Index of Prohibited Books. One book that found its way onto this list was On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres, by the Polish astronomer Nicholas Copernicus.
The Index The list of forbidden books was officially known as,'Index Librorum Prohibitorum' which translates into English as List of prohibited books. The first list was compiled by Pope Paul IV in 1559. It was revised an updated over the years, the final edition (the 20th) was published in 1948. The list of prohibited books was formally abolished in 1966 by Pope Paul VI.
Quite extensive, Pope Paul III reconvened the Council of Trent and approved the Society of Jesus among many other things. Pope Paul IV also oversaw the Council of Trent, instituted the Roman Inquisition, and strongly affirmed the Catholic dogma of extra ecclesiam nulla salus("Outside the Church there is no salvation"). He also started the Index of Forbidden books which was in force from the mid-16th century up until 1966.
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I am assuming that you are asking for a list of prohibited books issued by the Catholic Church, not on. Further, it's just Catholic, not Roman Catholic. Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is never used by the official Catholic Church. The last Index of Prohibited Books was issued in 1948 and the entire Index was abolished by Pope Paul VI in 1966. You may see the 1948 Index at the link below.
The Papal Index, formally known as the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, was a list published by the Catholic Church that contained books deemed heretical, dangerous to faith, or contrary to morality. First established in the 16th century, it aimed to protect the faithful from potentially harmful literature. The Index was officially abolished in 1966 by Pope Paul VI, reflecting a shift towards greater openness and engagement with modern thought.
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