Author: Joseph McCabe
Title: The History and Meaning of the Catholic Index of Forbidden Books
Description: Girard, Kansas, Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1931. Paperback. 107p. plus ads. A staplebound softcover booklet in good condition. Cover edges faded and pages sligtly tanned. An overview of the Catholic Church's practice of banning, under pain of excommunication, books that challenged Catholic traditions and values. The Church stopped updating its Forbidden Books Index or "Index Librorum Prohibitorum" in 1966. The author of this pamphlet was a former Franciscan priest who left the Church and became a vocal member of the anti-authoritarian Freethought movement. He was included among the thinkers G.K. Chesterton opposed in his book "Heretics. Very Good .
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Title: The History and Meaning of the Catholic Index of Forbidden Books
Description: Girard, Kansas, Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1931. Paperback. 107p. plus ads. A staplebound softcover booklet in good condition. Cover edges faded and pages sligtly tanned. An overview of the Catholic Church's practice of banning, under pain of excommunication, books that challenged Catholic traditions and values. The Church stopped updating its Forbidden Books Index or "Index Librorum Prohibitorum" in 1966. The author of this pamphlet was a former Franciscan priest who left the Church and became a vocal member of the anti-authoritarian Freethought movement. He was included among the thinkers G.K. Chesterton opposed in his book "Heretics. Very Good .
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Price: US$ 45.00 Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd.
- Book number: 204722
- Book number: 204722
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