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Canon 1398 (NA)
§ 1. The prohibition of books brings it about that the book cannot be published, read, retained,
sold, translated into another language, or in any other way communicated to others without
necessary permission.
§ 2. A book that in any manner is prohibited cannot once again be brought out unless, the
corrections having been made, permission is given by him who prohibited the book, or by his
Superior or successor.
Canon 139916 (NA) Cross-Ref.: 1917 CIC 1400
By the law, [the following] are prohibited:
1.° Original text editions or ancient versions of Catholic sacred Scripture, even of the
Oriental Church, published by any non-Catholic; and likewise versions [of these], in
any language, by these [same sort] prepared or published;
2.° Books of any writers propagating heresy or schism, or attacking in any way the basis
of religion;
3.° Books by design striking against religion and good morals;
4.° Books by any non-Catholics treating purposely of religion, unless it can be shown
that nothing contained in them is contrary to the Catholic faith;
5.° Books mentioned in Canon 1385, § 1, n. 1, and Canon 1391; likewise all those
mentioned in the cited Canon 1385, § 1, n. 2, [and] books and booklets that describe
new apparitions, revelations, visions, prophecies, and miracles, or that lead to new
devotions, even under the pretext of being private, if they have not been published
in accord with the prescriptions of the canons;
6.° Books attacking or deriding any Catholic dogma, or protecting errors proscribed by
the Holy See, or detracting from divine cult, or arguing for the avoidance of
ecclesiastical discipline, or bringing about opprobrium on religion or the clerical
state;
7.° Books that teach or recommend superstition in general, sorcery, divination, magic,
evoking of spirits, and other things of this sort;
8.° Books that argue the liceity of dueling, ѕυιcιdє, or divorce, and those that in
discussing masonic sects and other societies of this sort argue that they are useful
and not pernicious to the Church and civil society;
9.° Books that purposely describe, teach, or treat lascivious or obscene materials;
10.° Editions of liturgical books approved by the Apostolic See in which there have been
any changes so that they are not consistent with the authentic editions approved by
the Holy See;
11.° Books that give out apocryphal indulgences or [ones] proscribed or revoked by the
Holy See;
12.° Any images or impressions of Our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Virgin Mary, of
the Angels and Saints or other Servants of God, alien to the sense and decrees of the
Church.

5.° Books mentioned in Canon 1385, § 1, n. 1, and Canon 1391; likewise all those
mentioned in the cited Canon 1385, § 1, n. 2, [and] books and booklets that describe
new apparitions, revelations, visions, prophecies, and miracles, or that lead to new
devotions, even under the pretext of being private, if they have not been published
in accord with the prescriptions of the canons;

cannot be published, read, retained, sold, translated into another language, or in any other way communicated to others without necessary permission.