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CARDINAL'S CONDEMNATION TOO NUMEROUS FOR INDEX (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.* (Received May 12, 10 a.m.) 'ROME, May 9. Cardinal Merry del Val, as secretary to the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, addressed the episcopacy all "over the world on the subject of improper literature, espeecially books combining love affairs with a kind of religious mysticism, as if virtue aud religion could join with the corruption of manners. He adds {.hat the number of these looks being published in the world is so great that it is impossible to examine and put them all on the index. Therefore, bishops must undertake the duty of keeping these books from their flocks.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16338, 12 May 1927, Page 7
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