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The Papal Allocution Against Freemasonry.
THE PAPAL ALLOCUTION AGAINST FREEMASONRY .
J 3 y the Editor . f | ! ^ years eighteen hundred and sixty-four and sixty-five 8 |* were important to Freemasonry . The Pope's Encyclical was promulgated at the close of the former , but the
discussions on it , the full development of its bearings , both social , and political , as well as the religious theory which it involved , making it an epoch in the history of Christianity , were the work of last year . The spiritual pretensions of the Papacy were never carried higher , or pushed to the utmost
verge of their consequences , with more deliberate and unflinching logic , than they have been in the applauding comments which the Encyclical has drawn forth , especially from the able and zealous men who have placed themselves at the head of
the Koman Catholic movement in England , and AVIIO claim to be , in an especial manner , the interpreters of Koman Catholic principles , and to know , exactly , what the Pope means and desires . That those who put the most extreme sense on Papal infallibility are not wrong in their claim , to represent
what are the growing principles at Eome , is shown , in the most marked and significant way , by the selection of Archbishop Manning to succeed the late Cardinal Wiseman , and in the peculiar circumstances which accompanied that appointment , Of late Roman Catholic theories have become more than usually VOL . I . E
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Papal Allocution Against Freemasonry.
THE PAPAL ALLOCUTION AGAINST FREEMASONRY .
J 3 y the Editor . f | ! ^ years eighteen hundred and sixty-four and sixty-five 8 |* were important to Freemasonry . The Pope's Encyclical was promulgated at the close of the former , but the
discussions on it , the full development of its bearings , both social , and political , as well as the religious theory which it involved , making it an epoch in the history of Christianity , were the work of last year . The spiritual pretensions of the Papacy were never carried higher , or pushed to the utmost
verge of their consequences , with more deliberate and unflinching logic , than they have been in the applauding comments which the Encyclical has drawn forth , especially from the able and zealous men who have placed themselves at the head of
the Koman Catholic movement in England , and AVIIO claim to be , in an especial manner , the interpreters of Koman Catholic principles , and to know , exactly , what the Pope means and desires . That those who put the most extreme sense on Papal infallibility are not wrong in their claim , to represent
what are the growing principles at Eome , is shown , in the most marked and significant way , by the selection of Archbishop Manning to succeed the late Cardinal Wiseman , and in the peculiar circumstances which accompanied that appointment , Of late Roman Catholic theories have become more than usually VOL . I . E