Papal Documents relating to Freemasonry
- Papal Documents relating to Freemasonry
A number of papal documents deal with Freemasonry,[From [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09771a.htm#VIII Masonry (Freemasonry)] The Catholic Encyclopedia and [http://www.bessel.org/cathtlor.htm ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH LAW REGARDING FREEMASONRY] by REID McINVALE, Texas Lodge of Research paper] the most prominent include:]Before Pius IX
*Clement XII - Eminenti Apostolatus Specula - 1738
*Benedict XIV - Providas Romanorum - 1751
*Pius VII - Ecclesiam a Jesu Christo - 1821
*Leo XII - Quo Graviora - 1826
*Pius VIII - Traditi Humilitati - 1829
*Gregory XVI - Mirari Vos - 1832["This encyclical does not mention Masonry, but religious indifferentism is one of the charges often leveled against Freemasonry in papal pronouncements. Some Roman Catholic authorities identify this pronouncement as anti-Masonic." [http://www.io.com/~janebm/churchlaw.html Roman Catholic Church Law Regarding Freemasonry] by Reid McInvale] ]Pius IX
* Qui Pluribus - 1846["While not mentioning Masonry directly, it criticizes those it does not identify for those same faults that the previous papal pronouncements imputed to Freemasonry, and is regarded as an anti-Masonic pronouncement by some Catholic sources." [http://www.bessel.org/cathtlor.htm ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH LAW REGARDING FREEMASONRY] by REID McINVALE, Texas Lodge of Research] ]
* Quibus quantisque malis - 1849
* Quanta cura - 1864
* Multiplices inter - 1865
* Apostolicæ Sedis - 1869
* Etsi multa - 1873Leo XIII
* Etsi Nos - 1882 ["It is even reported that this year it is about to receive the deputies and leaders of the sect which is most embittered against Catholicism, who have appointed this city as the place for their solemn meeting. The reasons which have determined their choice of such a meeting place are no secret; they desire by this outrageous provocation to glut the hatred which they nourish against the Church, and to bring their incendiary torches within reach of the Roman Pontificate by attacking it in its very seat." Paragraph 3, [http://www.ewtn.com/library/ENCYC/L13ITL.HTM Etsi Nos (On Conditions in Italy)] ]
* Humanum Genus - 1884
* Officio Sanctissimo - 1887
* Ab Apostolici - 1890
* Custodi di quella fede - 1892
* Inimica vis - 1892
* Praeclara Gratulationis Publicae - 1894
* Annum ingressi - 1902
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