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Zechariah 7:11,12

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder,

and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

Acts 7:57

But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears,

1966 - Cardinal Ottaviani, head of the Sacred Congregation of the Faith, declared  there would be no further editions of the Index.  [It had become a public embarrassment to Rome]

2007 - "This does not mean, however, that whatever has been contained on the Index is now automatically permitted reading for all Catholics." – - New Catholic Encyclopedia

500 pages in length. The TEXT is kept in Latin. The Introduction in Italian.  Contains two forms of Prohibitive CENSORSHIP. (1)  “Authors” which summarily “forbid” viewing of anything produced by the “person mentioned” and individual (2) “works”.

The topical range is so inclusive it must be organized by category. 

        - Theology   (the greatest number of works fall into this category)

       - Philosophy ( including economics, political and social sciences )

       - History

       - Literary  (novels and romances)

      - Travelogues (especially concerning Rome)

       - Female authors

       - Protestant & Jewish writers

      - All TRANSLATIONS of the BIBLE (on the list at one time. Personal Possession of a Bible was considered illegal)

 John Huss

 John Calvin

John Wycliff

(All) Reformers”

Francis Bacon

Henri Bergson - three works

Auguste Comte

Immanuel Kant - "Critique of Pure Reason"

John Locke - "An Essay on Human Understanding"

Blaise Pascal - "The Provinical Letters" and "Pensées" (only the edition with notes by Voltaire)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - "The Social Contract" and "Emile"

Michel Montaigne - Essays

John Stuart Mill - "Principles of Political Economy"

Diderot and d'Alembert - French encyclopedists

Charles Louis de Montesquieu - "The Spirit of the Laws" (a work that greatly influenced Jefferson, Hamilton and John Jay)

Virginia Paganini - "Moral and Practical Guide for a Mother of the People" (1891)

Edward Gibbon - "History of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire"

Pierre Larousse -  17 volume "Grand  Dictionnaire Universel du 19ème Siècle"

Charles Maurras - "Action Française"

Dr. Auge-Louis Hesnard

Daniel Defoe - "Political History of the Devil"

Oliver Goldsmith -  "History of England"

Rafaele Ciocci - "A Narrative of the Iniquities and Barbarities Practiced in Rome in the 19 th Century" (1845)

Luigi Pianciani -  "Rome of the Popes" (1860)

Mathilda Marchot - "Truth on the Condition at Loigny in the Diocese of Chartres" (1890)

Heinrick Heine - works

Gustave Flaubert - "Madame Bovary"

Victor Hugo -  "Les Misérables" "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"

Stendhal - all love stories

Honoré Balzac - all love stories

Amantine Lucille Aurore Dudevant (George Sand) - all love stories

Alexandre Dumas (father and son) - all love stories

Jean de Lafontaine - tales, fables, verses, etc.

Gabriel Rosetti - four works

Lady Morgan Sydney -  "Italy - a Journal of a Residence in That Country Exhibiting a View of the State of Society, etc." 1822

Charlotte Ann Waldie -  "Rome in the 19 th Century in a Series of Letters Written During a  Residence in Rome 1817-1818."

Michael Hobart Seymour - "A Pilgrimage to Rome"  (1851)