The Censoring of Catholic Books: The Index, Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur

The Church started censoring books in the 1500s shortly after the invention of the printing press when common people began to have access to books, because prior to the printing press books were time consumingly painstakingly hand copied, i.e. the information they received about religion could come from somewhere other than the pulpit at mass,… Continue reading The Censoring of Catholic Books: The Index, Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur