What the Vatican did not include "Mein Kampf" in his Index of Forbidden Books?
"Liborum Prohibitorum Index is a list of books produced by the Vatican that every good Catholic should not be read. It was discontinued in 1966. That included most of the works of André Gide and SATRA, and some works of Francis Bacon, Flaubert, writing science such as Galileo and Copernicus (presumably changed later, once they realized the earth, indeed around the sun) and the political work of Jeremy Bentham, among many others. However, "Mein Kampf" (1924) of Adolf Hitler was never banned, but books were added to the list in the years following the publication of this book. Why this book was not banned?
- These are the writings of Voltaire and Sartre still forbidden by the Vatican?
- Why the Catholic Bible has more than 7 books in the Protestant Old Testament? Did not God say not to?
- Books for the Prohibition of Desire Palin?
- Books for the Prohibition of Desire Palin?
- King James did remove certain books from the original King James Version of the Bible, 1611?
Are you suggesting that there should be prohibited on the grounds that the author was or what the book contained? Because I do not think you have read, and I think you are saying that it was Hitler wrote a book that should have been there.
Besides, the Vatican had a very tenuous relationship with Germany that was. Any lack of participation during the Holocaust comes to mind.
>> What does the Vatican not "Mein Kampf" in its index of banned books? <<
I am curious how you know that, because "It has proved to be somewhat difficult to obtain a complete list of books included in the Index." (Book of Modern History) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/index …
Pope Pius XII was a friend of Hitler when Pius was the Archbishop of Berlin before becoming Pope. The Pope never spoke about what Hitler did during the entire period, including but not limited to, the Holocaust. Moreover, Jews were considered by the Church until the Second Vatican Council, 1960-1963, to be responsible for the death of Jesus. I am not surprised the Vatican does not ban "Mein Kampf".
How to know which books were banned in that list because it is not easy to achieve?
He forgot that the Bible was also on that list of books!
"Mein Kampf" was written by a Jesuit priest (Father Staempfle) so I'm not surprised that it would not be prohibited by the Vatican.
History suggests there was an unpleasant relationship between the Vatican and Berlin during the Second World War. The idea that this book does not include in your list adds to my suspicion.