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Rule 4. General Rule. Translations of a forbidden book into any language are also forbidden, if they faithfully reproduce the original.

Rule 5, a. Books defending heresies, i. e. doctrines contrary to divine revelation.

b. Books derogatory to God, the Blessed Virgin, the Saints.

c. Books vilifying the sacraments, the clerical or religious state, the hierarchy, the Church.

Rule 6. Books professedly treating of, narrating or teaching lewdness and obscenity.

Rule 7. Books teaching or recommending sorcery, spiritism, Christian Science, or other superstitions.

Rule 8. Books defending as lawful or harmless, Freemasonry, divorce, Socialism, suicide, duelling.

Rule 9. Those newspapers and periodicals which not merely now and then, but