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Article THE PAPAL ALLOCUTION AGAINST FREEMASONRY. ← Page 10 of 16 →
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The Papal Allocution Against Freemasonry.
that the " Masonic organization" could be so base as to lend itself to anything so utterly beneath an Order having aims and aspirations which must ever remain inscrutable mysteries to the writer of the article . The Weekly Register , a Eonian Catholic Newspaper , of
November 1 st , 1865 , has a " Communicated" Article under the heading of " A Parson Freemason , " in which the Allocution and the speech of the Eeverend Dr . BOAVICS , Provincial Grand Master of Herefordshire , as delivered at the last Provincial Grand Lodge of Herefordshire , held at Ledbury , are commented
on . We are not called upon to defend Dr . BoAvles ' s exhibition of very bad taste in dealing with a subject , of such grave import , in a comic style . It might have tickled the ears of those present at the banquet , but is so devoid of argument , instruction , or reading , such as would naturally be expected from a
clergyman , and a ruler of the Order , that Ave the more deprecate its style and blush for the Anglican priest , whose only answer to a grave accusation smacks more of " the funny man , " at a private party , than of a churchman , to whom is delegated the control of a province of the Order . The WeeJcly Register says : —
" The language of this Parson could not be surpassed in virulence by " any Italianissimo of them all . What Avould not such a man do , supposing " Ms courage and energy proportionate to his hatred , if he Avere an Italian " statesman , demagogue , or military leader P And yet this man ought " from his social position and as an Anglican dignitary to be a supporter " of order and authority rather than a revolutionary partizan such as A \ o
" fcnoio foreign Freemasons to be . And yet hoAv intense in his sympathy " with them , Avho Avould if they could , make short work of British institutions " and established Churches , how satanic is his hatred of the great centre " of all authority , religion , order , and justice in Christendom ? This " Anglican dignitary prefers Abdel-FJaclor to the Pope , the vanquished African
" Arab , the polygamous infidel , to the head of the Catholic Church , from " Avhom his ( Parson BOAVICS ' ) orders and right to exercise the Christian " ministry are ( if he possesses them ) confessedly derived . We are not " declaiming against this indecent exhibition in an Anglican dignitary , we " are merely adducing facts to show Avhat is the influence of Freemasonry " on British subjects , IIOAV it can overbear in them the instincts of order , " the principles of their party , and the decencies of their position .
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The Papal Allocution Against Freemasonry.
that the " Masonic organization" could be so base as to lend itself to anything so utterly beneath an Order having aims and aspirations which must ever remain inscrutable mysteries to the writer of the article . The Weekly Register , a Eonian Catholic Newspaper , of
November 1 st , 1865 , has a " Communicated" Article under the heading of " A Parson Freemason , " in which the Allocution and the speech of the Eeverend Dr . BOAVICS , Provincial Grand Master of Herefordshire , as delivered at the last Provincial Grand Lodge of Herefordshire , held at Ledbury , are commented
on . We are not called upon to defend Dr . BoAvles ' s exhibition of very bad taste in dealing with a subject , of such grave import , in a comic style . It might have tickled the ears of those present at the banquet , but is so devoid of argument , instruction , or reading , such as would naturally be expected from a
clergyman , and a ruler of the Order , that Ave the more deprecate its style and blush for the Anglican priest , whose only answer to a grave accusation smacks more of " the funny man , " at a private party , than of a churchman , to whom is delegated the control of a province of the Order . The WeeJcly Register says : —
" The language of this Parson could not be surpassed in virulence by " any Italianissimo of them all . What Avould not such a man do , supposing " Ms courage and energy proportionate to his hatred , if he Avere an Italian " statesman , demagogue , or military leader P And yet this man ought " from his social position and as an Anglican dignitary to be a supporter " of order and authority rather than a revolutionary partizan such as A \ o
" fcnoio foreign Freemasons to be . And yet hoAv intense in his sympathy " with them , Avho Avould if they could , make short work of British institutions " and established Churches , how satanic is his hatred of the great centre " of all authority , religion , order , and justice in Christendom ? This " Anglican dignitary prefers Abdel-FJaclor to the Pope , the vanquished African
" Arab , the polygamous infidel , to the head of the Catholic Church , from " Avhom his ( Parson BOAVICS ' ) orders and right to exercise the Christian " ministry are ( if he possesses them ) confessedly derived . We are not " declaiming against this indecent exhibition in an Anglican dignitary , we " are merely adducing facts to show Avhat is the influence of Freemasonry " on British subjects , IIOAV it can overbear in them the instincts of order , " the principles of their party , and the decencies of their position .