CHAPTER V.

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CHAPTER V.

SsOME HOOKS 01' A PAIiTICUL VR KIND.

11. Books detracting from the reverence due to God, the Blessed Virgin, the saints, the Church and its worship, the sacrament-;, or the Apostolic See are condemned. Under the same prohibition come those works in which the idea of the inspiration of Holy Scripture is perverted or its extension too strictly limited. Book^ in \\ hioh the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy or the clerical or religious state is deliberately assailed with opprobrium are likewise forbidden. 12. It must be held as unlawful to publish, read, or keep books in which fortune-telling, divination, magic, the summoning ol spirits. and other such superstitions are taught or recommended.

13. Books or writings which tell of new apparition*, revelations. visions, prophecies, and miracle*, or which introduce new devotions, even under the pretext that they are private, are proscribed it they are published without due permission from ecclesiastical superiors. 14. In like manner are prohibited books which uphold the lawfulness of the duel, suicide, or divorce, which treat of the Masonic sects and other societies of that kind and maintain that these are not baleful but useful to the Church and civil society, and which defend errors proscribed by the Holy See.