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[tree_and_leaf]

While I'd quite like to believe this (who doesn't love a story about kids fighting for the right to read what they want?) I find it hard to believe that a Roman Catholic school* would ban some of these. I mean, admittedly you might censor Paradise Lost, because its Christology is certainly very dubious, but getting upset about works on human evolution is more of a fundamentalist Protestant thing, and I can't imagine why any school that didn't have a Stalinist axe to grind would want to ban Animal Farm.

But.... Dante? I'm not buying it without considerably more substantiation.



* The OP doesn't specify what kind of 'strict private school' they attend, but states that "most of the books contained information that opposed Catholicism".

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[liadnan]

The Index Librorum Prohibitorum was formally abolished by Paul VI in 1966 during a reorganisation of the curia, it had been a dead duck for most of a generation by then. I know of no proposals to revive it and would be staggered if anyone in a position to push for it had the remotest intention of doing so.

Darwin never made it though De Chardin came a bit close.

I don't think even my onetime friend now notorious for running a very conservative Catholic boarding school at Chavagnes in France would have a real problem with any of that lot. Well, maybe Twilight and Anne Rice. 25 years ago he lent me Auel though.

But... "Catholic" is something of a fluid term depending on where one is standing. Both the SSPX (they who think Benedict and JPII are dangerous liberals and Vatican II flirted with formal heresy, particularly on religious liberty) and the SSPV (they who think that the SSPX are dangerous liberals and that there probably hasn't been a real pope since at least Pius XII, possibly since the condemnation of Jansenism) run private schools in the US and I can easily see them objecting to all that list. That might be what lies at the bottom of it.