Question

Use the following excerpt from Rule VIII of the Council of Trent's "Ten Rules Concerning Prohibited Books" to answer the question:

Answer 1

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?

A.) the power to ban books it completely disagrees with
B.) the power to censor parts of otherwise permitted books
C.) the power to reverse a judgment condemning a book
D.) the power to forbid printing a book that has been banned