Der Index der verbotenen Bücher: In seiner neuen Fassung dargelegt und rechtlich-historisch gewürdigt

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Der Index Leos XIII Gesamtcodex der kirch | 1
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Die Präventivzensur in den Bullen Alexanders VI 1501 und Leos X | 7
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Sirlet mit vier andern Kardinälen Mitglieder der Kongregation in der Bulle Gre | 15
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Vorwort | 89
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Erlaubnis zum Lesen verbotener Bücher 502510 | 166
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denkt wenn die Vergötterer der alten wie neuen klassischen Schriftsteller | 411
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dinäle der Inquisition 502504 Die Fakultät des Kardinals Sirlet vom 4 Juli | 505
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Abdruck des ganzen Index 520521 Noten zum Inhalt desselben Bestimmung | 522
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Der Index des Jahres 1593 529531 | 529
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Epist 54 n 11 Migne Patr lat XXII 555 | 555
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Das Breve Innozenz XI vom 26 Mai 1689 als Abschluß des Pro | 563
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Vincenzo Giobertis Urteil über die Indexkongregation | 573
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Verzeichnis zur Geschichte der Bücherzensur 585587 | 585
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Can a Bishop forbid some literature to the faithful under his rule? Yes, as canonist Dom Augustine writes on 1917 can. 1384 (cf. 1983 CIC 823-24),

§ 1. The Church has the right of requiring that books that have not been recognized by her prior judgment not be published by the faithful,1 and that those published by anyone be prohibited for a just cause.2

1. "preventive censorship (praevia librorum censura)," for Catholics only
2. "vindicates to the Church the right of prohibiting any and all books which she considers objectionable," even for non-Catholics,

"the right to control the reading of her children" is granted by natural law to

Paternal as well as political authorities [who] have the natural right to ward off anything that may endanger the moral and physical welfare of their subjects, and to protect them against bad surroundings, company, literature, etc., in fact anything that is apt to cause insubordination, anarchy, or moral decay. The Church, being an autonomous society, with subjects for whom she is responsible within her own sphere cannot be destitute of the authority and power which enables her to keep her children uncontaminated and to safeguard them against the danger of perversion. Of all the dangers that imperil man's salvation bad literature is perhaps the most destructive. Hence the right to control the reading of her children cannot be denied the Church even from the purely natural point of vantage. Historical facts amply confirm the necessity of preventive censorship in Church and State.1
1. Cfr. the classical work of J. Hilgers, S. J., Der Index der verbotenen Bücher, 1904.