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Dark Mysteries of the VaticanBehind closed doors, though, the Vatican officials held long and sometimes heated debates about the books of the day.БЂ«After more than a decade of studying the Index, a diocesan priest and history professor at Mцјnster University in Germany, the Reverend Hubert Wolf stated, БЂњNowhere else in the world did an institution try to control the medium of modern times, the book, for over 400 years.БЂ«The archives covering Church debates about thousands of books offer a unique insight into centuries of Vatican thinking on theology, philosophy, history, politics, science, and world literature. Stored in a basement of what was once known as the Holy Office, now called the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the files were closed to outside researchers for centuries. Building the archives started in earnest with the Inquisition in 1542 to combat the Protestant Reformation that began with Martin LutherБЂ™s challenge to papal authority. After he nailed his БЂњ95 thesesБЂ«to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany, in 1515, they were printed in Leipzig, Nuremberg, and Basel and distributed widely ...» |
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