Religious books/pamphlets

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Hi everyone,
Who can I donate religious books/pamphlets/photos to? Can I mail to a Catholic organization?

My confessor said not a good idea to put them in back of the Church.
What do you do?

Thank you
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Depends on their nature as religious books and pamphlets.

If some of them are things one picked up along the way thinking they would be good and one now finds that they have various errors in them - then one would want to get rid of them (ripped up…burned…).
 
Does your church have a library?

If not, ask the parish secretary. She may know someone who may want them.
 
You could always sell them cheap on Amazon.com

Catholic stuff usually sells

St Vincent DePaul is another idea.

But if St. Vincent DePaul won’t take them you could donate to Goodwill or your maybe local YMCA
 
What’s wrong with leaving them in Church? The only people who are going to see them are Catholics. The only people who are going to take them are people who want to learn about the faith.

An Adoration Chapel is a good place. Our 24 hour Chapel has a nice selection of pamphlets and classic books for people to read while in contemplation. When I returned to the Church, I was spending about 2 hours each day reading at our Divine Mercy chapel. (Often longer) Books and pamphlets from people like you played a huge role in my spiritual development.

Materials like these should be passed along to the next newcomer on the path. I am very grateful that 20 years of donations were made available to me. They changed my life.👍
 
WJeffrey said:
What’s wrong with leaving them in Church? The only people who are going to see them are Catholics. The only people who are going to take them are people who want to learn about the faith.

An Adoration Chapel is a good place. Our 24 hour Chapel has a nice selection of pamphlets and classic books for people to read while in contemplation. When I returned to the Church, I was spending about 2 hours each day reading at our Divine Mercy chapel. (Often longer) Books and pamphlets from people like you played a huge role in my spiritual development.
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Because - they may not be approved texts that can be left in a Church or Chapel. A person cannot simply willie nillie leave books etc.
 
Our priest welcomes Catholic literature. Some parishioners bring seasonal holy cards especially for Divine Mercy Sunday. Books for adoration are out for the First Friday and saved for the next month. Some churches encourage sharing of materials that would increase the faith of people. You may want to check in your area if another church has a table where you could take them. Also, a convent or retired priest home. Faithful parishioners carefully monitor what is appropriate reading and would discard what is not,
fortunately this has not happened.
 
Bookcat said:
Because - they may not be approved texts that can be left in a Church or Chapel. A person cannot simply willie nillie leave books etc.
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Exactly. Our priest now forbids it. People were leaving Protestant material and non-approved Catholic stuff.
 
Some books may be rather good and from good sources and can be donated.

Others may be things one picked up thinking they are good…but are not and even contain errors - which should not be passed on …(but be ripped up or commended to the flames…)
 
Canon Law:

821 §4. Books or other writings dealing with questions of religion or morals cannot be exhibited, sold, or distributed in churches or oratories unless they have been published with the permission of competent ecclesiastical authority or approved by it subsequently.

vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P2Q.HTM
 
Bookcat said:
Canon Law:

821 §4. Books or other writings dealing with questions of religion or morals cannot be exhibited, sold, or distributed in churches or oratories unless they have been published with the permission of competent ecclesiastical authority or approved by it subsequently.

vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P2Q.HTM
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That merely means that they have a Nihil Obstat and Imperaritur, which can easily be checked inside the cover.
 
peter26 said:
That merely means that they have a Nihil Obstat and Imperaritur, which can easily be checked inside the cover.
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Yes I realize that those are some of the forms of approval given by Ecc. Authority.

The quote there is to be taken in its full and applied accordingly.
 
I stand corrected. I never considered people leaving protestant materials or people being unable to identify questionable materials.

Does an Adoration Chapel fall under the same rules as a Church.

Does “distributed” under Canon Law mean kept for use in the Chapel or would it mean that it would necessitate physical removal by the borrower/taker?

I am assuming that the writings of St. Alphonsus on the Blessed Sacrament, prayer and God’s will would need to be removed since he isn’t a Church Doctor. What about modern translations of books like St. Augustine’s Confessions or St. Teresa’s Interior Castles.

Should our Chapel close our reading material section? I really hope not. I really wonder if I would have stuck around after my first couple of masses if I wouldn’t have discovered the Adoration Chapel and the material that introduced me to the faith. It certainly wasn’t the cold shoulders of the parishioners.
 
WJeffrey said:
I stand corrected. I never considered people leaving protestant materials or people being unable to identify questionable materials.

Does an Adoration Chapel fall under the same rules as a Church.

Does “distributed” under Canon Law mean kept for use in the Chapel or would it mean that it would necessitate physical removal by the borrower/taker?

I am assuming that the writings of St. Alphonsus on the Blessed Sacrament, prayer and God’s will would need to be removed since he isn’t a Church Doctor. What about modern translations of books like St. Augustine’s Confessions or St. Teresa’s Interior Castles.

Should our Chapel close our reading material section? I really hope not. I really wonder if I would have stuck around after my first couple of masses if I wouldn’t have discovered the Adoration Chapel and the material that introduced me to the faith. It certainly wasn’t the cold shoulders of the parishioners.
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Yes, the Adoration Chapel is the same as the Church. “The Church” is the diocese; anything that is part of the Diocese or religious order is “the Church”
 
WJeffrey said:
I stand corrected. I never considered people leaving protestant materials or people being unable to identify questionable materials.

Does an Adoration Chapel fall under the same rules as a Church.

Does “distributed” under Canon Law mean kept for use in the Chapel or would it mean that it would necessitate physical removal by the borrower/taker?

I am assuming that the writings of St. Alphonsus on the Blessed Sacrament, prayer and God’s will would need to be removed since he isn’t a Church Doctor. What about modern translations of books like St. Augustine’s Confessions or St. Teresa’s Interior Castles.

Should our Chapel close our reading material section? I really hope not. I really wonder if I would have stuck around after my first couple of masses if I wouldn’t have discovered the Adoration Chapel and the material that introduced me to the faith. It certainly wasn’t the cold shoulders of the parishioners.
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Books on the saints, even if they aren’t Church Doctors, aren’t the problem.

It’s “Catholic” books that don’t correlate with actual Church teaching.
 
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