Imprimatur

The imprimatur is a catholic official authorization to publish, described in the canonical Droit, and given by the ordinary one of the place (the bishop).

The imprimatur of the Roman Catholic church contains one to three seals, each one followed by a signature: imprimi potest , nihil obstat , and imprimatur .

Works subjected to the imprimatur

Sections 822 to 832 ( means of communication social and in particular the books ) of the modern canonical right specify which are works requiring a imprimatur . They are religious texts (prayer books, books liturgical, Catéchisme S, bibles, books of theology or canonical right, books of ecclesiastical history, books of religious instruction), or treating religious questions or morals (when they are distributed in places of worship), or reprintings of publications of the local ecclesiastical authority.

The canonical right also makes it possible évèque to require that some other types of writings be subjected to its examination.

Imprimi potest

Imprimi potest ( can be printed ) indicates, in the case of a work written by a member of a Religious order, which it was read and approved by the superior of the order or its representative. The mention is sometimes replaced by Permissio superiorum ( permission of the superior ).

Nihil obstat

Nihil obstat ( nothing is opposed to it) is an official approval given by a critic (the censor librorum ) delegated Roman Catholic church to publish a treating work of the Foi, the Morale, of the Liturgie, a book of prayer or treating Holy Scriptures, the author being generally a member of the clergy or an religious order. The mention means thus that the publication is of doctrinal error or contradiction with catholic morals.

Imprimatur

Imprimatur ( that it is printed ) indicates that work was authorized with the publication by the évèque one of the diocese, or another ecclesiastical authority. It guarantees that it does not contain any contrary element with the faith or catholic morals. It does not state that the évèque one is in agreement with its contents, or that this one is exact.

These authorizations are indicated on one of the first pages of work (with the back of the title or the half title), generally accompanied by the date and the place of each signature, following the example many legal documents.

Sources

  • Faith Facts: Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur , Catholics United for the Faith lira in line
  • canonical Code of right, sections 822-832 to read in line

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