Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1906 — Religious Novel Prohibited. [ARTICLE]

Religious Novel Prohibited.

“Il Santo, or the Saint,” ia the title of a much-discussed novel by Senator Fogazaoro of Italy, which has just been added to the list of prohibited hooka—“lndex Liborum Frohibitoruin”—by the Vatican authorities. The author ia a devout Catholic, but stall Is for liberal reforms. The theme of tire book ia the fate of a devout and zealous Ca.holk, modeled after ST. Firm™- of A-wW, who nadertakes reform witbin the church and encounters the opposition of the hierarchy.