Catholic Censorship After the Encyclical

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 9, 1908

Catholic Censorship After the Encyclical

As a result of the pope’s recent encyclical against “modernism,” the Catholic clergy of all countries are expected to establish and exercise a stricter censorship over the reading-matter that goes into the homes of the laity. This will naturally affect the circulation of religious books among Catholics, especially such books as show the place of that church in prophecy and the work it will do in the closing years of this dispensation; and this confirms the statement uttered some years ago to the effect that the work which we might have done in times of peace and quietness would have to be done under discouraging circumstances.