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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.
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