Wpływ cenzury kościelnej na program wydawniczy Księgarni i Drukarni Katolickiej

Abstract

Church censorship has had a long tradition and reached the first centuries of Christianity and one of its forms, a previous censorship, has functioned in a Catholic church since modernity. A Code of a Canonic Law standardized the principles of text control and procedures of awarding imprimaturs in the interwar period. The very principles defined, apart from the subject and object of censorship, specific tips for publishers aiming at getting an approval of church authorities to publish a book. The work shows the extent to which a church censorship influenced a publishing plan and the process of production of the Catholic Bookshop and Printing House, one of the dioceses in Upper Silesia.