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Vatican opens war on immorality in books plays and pictures
Rome May 11 The Vatican launches a campaign against immoral literature and film. The supreme sacred congregation has issued instructions to bishops to prohibit and denounce immoral books and plays, stressing mortal sin for readers regardless of prior condemnation. The Holy See condemns sensationalism and moral laxity postwar. A German film about the 400 year old reformer is highlighted as a vivid historical study.
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