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The Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("List of Prohibited Books") is a list of publications which the Catholic Church censored for being a danger to itself and the faith of its members. The various editions also contain the rules of the Church relating to the reading, selling and censorship of books. The aim of the list was to prevent the reading of immoral books or works containing theological errors and to prevent the corruption of the faithful.

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Catholicism is the faiths, practices and doctrines of a Catholic Church, but especially of the Roman Catholic Church. From Latin catholicus from Ancient Greek καθολικός (katholikos) from κατά (kata, “according to”) + ὅλος (holos, “whole”).

In the sense of indicating historical continuity of faith and practice, the term "Catholicism" is at times employed to mark a contrast to Protestantism, which tends to look solely to the Bible as interpreted on the principles of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation as its ultimate standard.

See also

• Four Marks of the Church
• Religious order
• Anglican Catholic Church
• Anglican Church in North America
• Arianism
• Evangelical Catholic
• Global Anglican Future Conference
• Neo-Lutheranism
• Porvoo Communion
• Apostolic constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus
• Traditionalist Catholic
• Criticism of the Catholic Church
• Anti-Catholicism

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• Anti-clericalism
• Anti-Catholicism
• Catholic guilt
• Catholic Legion of Decency
• Index Librorum Prohibitorum

See also

• Monasticism
• Catholic Church
• Christianity