Question

Use the following excerpt from Rule VIII of the Council of Trent's "Ten Rules Concerning Prohibited Books" to answer the question: Books whose chief contents are good but in which some things have incidentally been inserted which have reference to heresy, ungodliness, divination or superstition, may be permitted if by the authority of the general inquisition they have been purged by Catholic theologians. ...Hereafter, however, these shall not be printed till they have been corrected.-- Rule VIII of the Council of Trent's "Ten Rules Concerning Prohibited Books" What power does the Church give itself in this passage?

Answer 1

The Church gave itself a censorhip power over knowlegdge.

Step-by-step explanation:

As part of the CounterReformation, the Catholic Church undergo a strenghtening of the Papacy power, and this was seen in the institutionalization of the Inquisition, and the creaton of the Index Prohibitorium, first drafted in the Council of Trent, and then with the papacy bule by Julius III.

Answer 2

Taking into account the statement above "Use the following excerpt from Rule VIII of the Council of Trent's "Ten Rules Concerning Prohibited Books" to answer the question: Books whose chief contents are good but in which some things have incidentally been inserted which have reference to heresy, ungodliness, divination or superstition, may be permitted if by the authority of the general inquisition they have been purged by Catholic theologians. ...Hereafter, however, these shall not be printed till they have been corrected.-- Rule VIII of the Council of Trent's "Ten Rules Concerning Prohibited Books" What power does the Church give itself in this passage?"

The answer is: The power to censor parts of otherwise permitted books.