Ron Liskey: Books Banned by the Catholic Church

By Ron | Jan 1, 2024

Essential reading for truth-seekers.

Books Banned by the Catholic Church

‘Tractate on Idolatry From the Mishneh Torah With Notes by Dionysius Vossius’

by Maimonides

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1717

19 Titles

by Renan, Ernest

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1859, 1860, 1863, 1866, 1869, 1877, 1881, 1882, 1884, 1891, 1892

6 Titles

by Michelet, Jules

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1815, 1840, 1859, 1863, 1866, 1896

7 Works

by Lamennais, Hugues Felicité Robert De

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1834, 1837, 1838, 1841, 1843, 1846

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)

by Sterne, Laurence

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1819

Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher

by Berkeley, George

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1742

All Love Stories

by Balzac, Honoré De

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1841

All Love Stories

by Dumas, Alexandre

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1863, 1880

All Love Stories

by Sand, George

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1840

All Love Stories

by Stendhal

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1828

All Plays and Love Stories

by D’Annunzio, Gabriele

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1911, 1928, 1935, 1939

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by Bruno, Giordano

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1600

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by France, Anatole

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1922

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by Gide, André

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1952

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by Gioberti, Vincenzo

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1849

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Published 1758 by Hobbes, Thomas

Banned by the Catholic Church.

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by Hobbes, Thomas

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1759, 1774

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by Hume, David

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1761

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by Leti, Gregorio

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1667

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by Machiavelli, Niccolo

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1559

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by Maeterlinck, Maurice

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1914

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by Moravia, Alberto

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1952

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by Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1852

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by Sartre, Jean-Paul

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1948

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by Zola

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1894

All Works of Theology

by Grotius, Hugo

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1626, 1657, 1658, 1659, 1672

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Published 1689 by Locke, John

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1734, 1737

Annales Et Historiae De Rebus Belgicis

Published 1657 by Grotius, Hugo

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1626, 1657, 1658, 1659, 1672

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Candide

Published 1759 by Voltaire

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1752, 1753, 1757, 1761, 1762, 1765, 1766, 1768, 1769, 1771, 1773, 1776, 1779

Conciliatorium Biblicum

by Thadeus, John

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1627

Contes Et Nouvelles

by La Fontaine, Jean De

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1703

Cours De Philosophie Positive

by Comte, Auguste

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1864

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Critique of Pure Reason (1781; Revised 1787)

by Kant, Immanuel

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1827

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De Dignitate Et Augmentis Scientiarum Libri IX. Donec Corrig.

by Bacon, Francis (Baco, Franciscus)

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1668 CE

De Divisione Naturae Libri Quinque Diu Desiderati

by Eriugena, Johannes Scotus (Erigena, Ioannes Scotus)

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1684

De Imperio Summarum Potestatum Circa Sacra

Published 1647 by Grotius, Hugo

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1626, 1657, 1658, 1659, 1672

De L’Allemagne

by Heine, Heinrich

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1836

De L’Esprit

Published 1758 by Helvétius, Claude Adrien

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1759, 1774

De L’esprit Des Lois

Published 1748 by Montesquieu

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1751, 1762

De La France

by Heine, Heinrich

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1836

De Originibus Et Usu Perpetuo Potestatis Legislatoriae Circa Sacra Apostolicorum Regum Ungariae (1764)

by Kollár, Adam František (Kollarius, Adamus Franciscus)

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1764

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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788)

by Gibbon, Edward

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1783

Dei Delitti E Delle Pene (1764)[4]

by Beccaria, Cesare

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1766

Deontology, or the Science of Morality

Published 1834 by Bentham, Jeremy

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1835

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Du Contrat Social

Published 1762 by Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1762, 1766, 1806

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Émile, Ou De L’éducation

Published 1762 by Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1762, 1766, 1806

Émile.

by Zola

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1894

Encyclopédie, Ou Dictionnaire Raisonné Des Sciences, Des Arts Et Des Métiers

Published 1751–72 by D’Alembert, Jean Le Rond

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1758

Encyclopédie, Ou Dictionnaire Raisonné Des Sciences, Des Arts Et Des Métiers

Published 1751-72 by Diderot, Denis

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1758, 1804

Essai Sur Les Données Immédiates De La Conscience

by Bergson, Henri

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1914

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Essays

by Montaigne, Michel De

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1676

Et Mémoireessai Sur La Relation Du Corps À L’esprit;

by Matière

Banned by the Catholic Church

Grand Dictionnaire Universel Du XIXe Siècle (1866-76)

by Larousse, Pierre

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1873

Het Volkomen Huwelijk (1926)

by Van De Velde, Theodoor Hendrik

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1931

History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science

Published 1874 by Draper, John William

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1876

Jacques Le Fataliste Et Son Maître

Published 1796 by Diderot, Denis

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1758, 1804

Judicial Lexicon of Imperial and Canon Law

by Calvin, John

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1659

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Julie, Ou La Nouvelle Héloïse

Published 1761 by Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1762, 1766, 1806

L’évolution Créatrice

by Matière

Banned by the Catholic Church

La Question Du Divorce

by Dumas, Alexandre

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1863, 1880

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Les Mandarins (English: The Mandarins)

Published 1954 by De Beauvoir, Simone

Simone de Beauvoir won the 1954 Prix Goncourt for The Mandarins, awarded to the best and most imaginative prose work of the year. The book follows the lives of a close-knit group of French intellectuals from the end of World War II to the mid-1950s. The title refers to the scholar-bureaucrats of imperial China. The characters at times see themselves as ineffectual “mandarins” as they attempt to discern what role, if any, intellectuals will have in influencing the political landscape of the world after World War II. As in Beauvoir’s other works, themes of feminism, existentialism, and personal morality are explored.

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1956

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Les Passions De L’âme (1649)

Published 1649 by Descartes, René

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1663

Lettres Persanes

Published 1721 by Montesquieu

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1751, 1762

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Lettres Philosophiques (English: Philosophical Letters)

Published 1733; Revised 1778 by Voltaire

A series of essays based on Voltaire’s experiences living in Great Britain between 1726 and 1729. The book was seen as an attack on the French system of government and was rapidly suppressed. A revised edition appeared in English in 1778 as Lettres philosophiques sur les Anglais (Philosophical Letters on the English). In some ways, the book can be compared with Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, in how it flatteringly describes a nation from the perspective of an outsider.

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1752, 1753, 1757, 1761, 1762, 1765, 1766, 1768, 1769, 1771, 1773, 1776, 1779

Lettres Provinciales

Published 1657 by Pascal, Blaise

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1657, 1789

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

by Abbott, Karen

Banned in some US school districts.

Literae Pseudo-Senatus Anglicani, Cromwellii Reliquorumque Perduellium Nomine Ac Iussu Conscriptae

Published 1676 by Milton, John

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1694, 1758

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Madame Bovary

Published 1856 by Flaubert, Gustave

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1864

Mémoires

by Casanova, Giacomo

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1834

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Opera Philosophica. Donec Corrig.

by Descartes, René

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1663

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Opera Philosophica. Donec Corrig.

by Descartes, René

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1663

Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded

Published 1740 by Richardson, Samuel

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1744

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Paradise Lost

Published 1667 by Milton, John

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1694, 1758

Pensées, With Notes by Voltaire

Published 1670 by Pascal, Blaise

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1657, 1789

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Posthumous Works

by Spinoza, Baruch

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1679, 1690

Principia (1734)

by Swedenborg, Emanuel

Banned by the Catholic Church.

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Principles of Political Economy (1848)

by Mill, John Stuart

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1856

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Reisebilder

by Heine, Heinrich

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1836

Religio Medici; the Religion of a Physician

by Browne, Thomas

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1645

Remarks on Several Parts of Italy

Published 1705; Revised 1718 by Addison, Joseph

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1729

Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind

Published 1794 by Condorcet, Nicholas De

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1827

The Last Temptation of Christ (1955)

by Kazantzakis, Nikos

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1953

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The Political History of the Devil

Published 1726 by Defoe, Daniel

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1743

The Reasonableness of Christianity, as Delivered in the Scriptures

Published 1695 by Locke, John

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1734, 1737

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The Second Sex

Published 1949 by De Beauvoir, Simone

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1956

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Tractatus Theologico-Politicus

Published 1677 by Spinoza, Baruch

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1679, 1690

Traité De La Nature Et De La Grace

Published 1680 by Malebranche, Nicolas

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1689, 1707, 1712

Traité De Morale

Published 1684 by Malebranche, Nicolas

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1689, 1707, 1712

Traité Sur La Tolérance

Published 1763 by Voltaire

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1752, 1753, 1757, 1761, 1762, 1765, 1766, 1768, 1769, 1771, 1773, 1776, 1779

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Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life

Published 1794 by Darwin, Erasmus

Banned by the Catholic Church in 1817

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