POPE’S CENSURE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18807, 20 February 1931, Page 9

POPE’S CENSURE

SUPPORTED BY ROMAN PRESS. United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright (Received February 19, 5.5 p.m.) ROME, February 18. “The Osservatoro Romano,” in a scathing attack, follows up the Pope’s censure upon cinemas and the music hall in Rome. The newspaper says that the censor’s work in Rome is ueseless. Nudes in music halls are becoming more audacious in creating tumult in the souls of the people, while minors learn the mysteries of life in the cinemas. The Church authorities are obliged to warn the faithful from attending immoral art exhibitions; and finally salacious foreign magazines, pseudo-scientific pamphlets, full of filth, are condemned. Authors are prosecuted in the Courts, where their works are only read behind closed doors, yet they have an entrance to the academy open to them.