I'm curious if the board can point me to reputable historical and modern records of Catholic Church censorship? I've been on a historical investigation recently into religious history, both early Christian history and trying to trace the family tree of modern "new age" spiritualism. As one might imagine, there are many claims made about history that are not reputable.

I learned only yesterday that for 400 years the Catholic Church maintained a list of books that church members were banned from reading?!

It seems that the church has been at odds with "new age" types for a long time so I think studying censorship might help uncover some of the historical ties to modern beliefs.

Index Librorum Prohibitorum

https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19660614_de-indicis-libr-prohib_en.html

To respond to the above-mentioned questions, this Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, after having asked the Holy Father, announces that the Index remains morally binding, in light of the demands of natural law, in so far as it admonishes the conscience of Christians to be on guard for those writings that can endanger faith and morals. But, at the same time, it no longer has the force of ecclesiastical law with the attached censure.

Interesting subject. They really didn't like Erasmus, or for that matter Galileo or of course Francis Bacon...

https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=12938

https://www.livescience.com/20310-censorship-16th-century-erasmus.html

On a related note is dual revelation;

http://www.thingsrevealed.net/dualrev.htm

I can only think of one obvious one...

http://justforcatholics.org/a198.htm

The reputation that Rome wanted it's followers to stop thinking, shut up and do as they were told was an easy one for the reformers to sell.

The Galileo thing is mostly misunderstood. Do your self a favor, pour a drink, and read this.

http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-great-ptolemaic-smackdown.html?m=1