Nowadays the Vatican rarely bans the work of specific authors. It is left to local bishops or Roman Catholic readers themselves to decide what books fall into forbidden categories. Last week, nonetheless, the Vatican proscribed the work of two widely read modern authors, and added their books to the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (TIME, April 28). The authors:
ANDRÉ GIDE, French novelist who died last year at 81, author of The Counterfeiters, Les Caves du Vatican, Theseus, etc., one of the topflight literary figures of the 20th century. The official decree banning Gide's work...
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