PSA: The Catholic Church's 1961 banned book index is still online

I was digging into why my grandpa's old copy of "Les Fleurs du Mal" was hidden in the attic, and the 1961 Index Librorum Prohibitorum from the Vatican is actually archived on a university website. It lists around 4,000 titles including stuff by Voltaire and Diderot - has anyone else found weird banned lists from old institutions floating around the web?

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briancampbell15d ago

Oh man, I remember reading that the Vatican actually kept updating that list until the 1960s. Crazy to think they had a formal "you can't read this" directory.

blair_allen15d agoMost Upvoted

My grandpa had a copy of the Index from 1948 in his attic. Said he kept it as a reading list.