In the midst of the waxing insanity of our time—wars and rumors of wars—one friend of WOR has asked us to share the initiative below.

All we can say in advance is:

“Now, there’s something you won’t see from the USCCB!”

www.BurnBadBooks.com

Here is a Catholic project by the folks at Roman Rite Crafts that grasps the spiritual importance of books in the Catholic tradition—good ones and bad ones—and (at least implicitly) advocates for real censorship as a matter of course.

Here! In the middle of our enlightened age of free thought, free speech, free morals! How incendiary! How inflammatory!

Say, it might just catch.

Here’s hoping that copies of Amoris Laetitia go up in smoke some day.

Their website has a helpful smattering of quotations about censorship as well—more than enough to build a Catholic case around. We will definitely be picking up some of their matches, though we can’t help but add another great quote for them to consider for their “Saints Burn Bad Books” section of their website.

From the great catechist Don Bosco:

“[Salesians] shall endeavour both by the spoken and the written word to raise a barrier against irreligion and heresy, which strive in so many ways to work their way among the uneducated and the ignorant. Toward this end should also be directed occasional sermons preached to the people, and the spreading of good books.” —Salesian Constitutions, Ch. 1, art. 7

And of course, we’ll end with the good saint’s corollary: Spread good books!

“[The effort] I wish to commend most warmly to your zeal is the spreading of good books. I do not hesitate to describe this work as divine, because God himself made use of it for the regeneration of mankind. … How many souls have been saved, preserved from error, encouraged in the practice of virtue through good books. … Only God knows how much good a book can do.”

Huzzah for the Burn Bad Books initiative…

… and Bravo the Restoration!