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Article FREEMASONRY UNDER AN INTERDICT. ← Page 2 of 4 →
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Freemasonry Under An Interdict.
revolutionists and incorrigible heretics , inimical to law and order , the source and cause of all the present tumultuous disorders which agitate society and the Avorld . Were Freemasons Avishful to retaliate or use hard words , they might fairly point to that one great secret Roman
Catholic society , to which some of the most dangerous maxims which ever corrupted the consciences or perverted the sympathies of men may be not unfairly attributed ; which has proclaimed at different times and in changing- scenes the most destructive and the most obnoxious theories ; and out of whose bosom sprang the most baneful
secret society the world has ever seen , " the Illuminati , " the model and parent of many other of those criminal combinations which so hinder the progress and disturb the peace of mankind at the present time . In May , 1738 , Clement XII . issued the well-known Bull , " In
Eminent ! Apostatalus Specula , " condemning all Freemasons everywhere , on various grounds , some untrue , some absurd , without hearing or appeal . And this condemnation remains the laAV of the Roman Catholic Church to this day , though , curiously enough this Bull was never published in France or Germany .
In 1739 , January 14 , Cardinal Firrao , from Rome , forbad , on pain of death , all priests or persons everywhere to join the society of
freemasons . On the 18 th February , 1739 , the Inquisition condemned , in a published sentence , the " Relation Apologique , " said to be written by Ramsay , and ordered the book to be burnt . In 1742 , H . F . Xavier De Belsance , de Castlemoron , Bishop of
Marseilles , issued a " Mandement" to the faithful , forbidding them to associate Avith the Freemasons . In 1748 the Chapter of the Sorbonne , at Paris , consulted and decided against the Freemasons , which decision the Lieutenant of Police published .
In June 1751 , Benedict XIV . issued another well-knoAvn Bull , " Providas Romanorum Pontificum , " & c , repeating the Bull of Clement , and adding a few warm touches of his own . In July , 1751 , the Archbishop of Avignon , Joseph de Guyon , called attention to this Bull , in a " Mandement . "
During the last century Freemasons were condemned by Scottish Presbyterian Synods , almost in Roman Catholic language by Calvinists , at Berne , and in Holland , at one time in Naples , a , nd after the Emperor Joseph ' s death , Avere suppressed in Austria and Lombardy . In this century the Roman Curia revived the condemnation of 1738-51 , in 1814 , in 1821-22 , and again more than once in the Pontificate of Pius IX .
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Freemasonry Under An Interdict.
revolutionists and incorrigible heretics , inimical to law and order , the source and cause of all the present tumultuous disorders which agitate society and the Avorld . Were Freemasons Avishful to retaliate or use hard words , they might fairly point to that one great secret Roman
Catholic society , to which some of the most dangerous maxims which ever corrupted the consciences or perverted the sympathies of men may be not unfairly attributed ; which has proclaimed at different times and in changing- scenes the most destructive and the most obnoxious theories ; and out of whose bosom sprang the most baneful
secret society the world has ever seen , " the Illuminati , " the model and parent of many other of those criminal combinations which so hinder the progress and disturb the peace of mankind at the present time . In May , 1738 , Clement XII . issued the well-known Bull , " In
Eminent ! Apostatalus Specula , " condemning all Freemasons everywhere , on various grounds , some untrue , some absurd , without hearing or appeal . And this condemnation remains the laAV of the Roman Catholic Church to this day , though , curiously enough this Bull was never published in France or Germany .
In 1739 , January 14 , Cardinal Firrao , from Rome , forbad , on pain of death , all priests or persons everywhere to join the society of
freemasons . On the 18 th February , 1739 , the Inquisition condemned , in a published sentence , the " Relation Apologique , " said to be written by Ramsay , and ordered the book to be burnt . In 1742 , H . F . Xavier De Belsance , de Castlemoron , Bishop of
Marseilles , issued a " Mandement" to the faithful , forbidding them to associate Avith the Freemasons . In 1748 the Chapter of the Sorbonne , at Paris , consulted and decided against the Freemasons , which decision the Lieutenant of Police published .
In June 1751 , Benedict XIV . issued another well-knoAvn Bull , " Providas Romanorum Pontificum , " & c , repeating the Bull of Clement , and adding a few warm touches of his own . In July , 1751 , the Archbishop of Avignon , Joseph de Guyon , called attention to this Bull , in a " Mandement . "
During the last century Freemasons were condemned by Scottish Presbyterian Synods , almost in Roman Catholic language by Calvinists , at Berne , and in Holland , at one time in Naples , a , nd after the Emperor Joseph ' s death , Avere suppressed in Austria and Lombardy . In this century the Roman Curia revived the condemnation of 1738-51 , in 1814 , in 1821-22 , and again more than once in the Pontificate of Pius IX .