EVIL INFLUENCES IN ROME

Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1931, Page 8

EVIL INFLUENCES IN ROME

SCATHING CENSURE OF CINEMAS.

IMMORAL ART EXHIBITIONS.

By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright. Rome, February 18.

Th© Osservatore Romano makes a scathing attack following up the Rope’s censure upon cinemas and music halls in Rome. The newspaper says the censor’s work in Rome is useless. “Nu<Jes in the music halls are becoming more audacious, creating tumult in the soul of the people, while minors learn the mysteries of life in cinemas. Church authorities are obliged to warn the faithful from attending immoral art exhibitions.”

Finally salacious foreign magazines and pseudo-scientific pamphlets full of filth are condemned. “The authors are prosecuted, in the courts, where ■ their works are read only behind closed doors, yet they have the entrance to the Academy open to them.”