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Article THE PAPAL ALLOCUTION AGAINST FREEMASONRY. ← Page 9 of 16 →
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The Papal Allocution Against Freemasonry.
latter is pressing on , rapidly , towards extinction , the former is flourishing more luxuriantly than ever . The Times admits such societies as ours may have been formidable some feAV centuries ago , and so they were . The Papal records , if Ave could but peruse them , Avould confess the same .
The edicts that Eome has issued against us , from the second century to the year just past , prove it . The spirit that animated our mediaeval brethren yet remains , and whilst the guilds of their day have degenerated into " extinct associations , " Freemasonry , —not the operative guild of Masons , a corporation of handicraftsmen as perfectly fossilized as others of the same nature , —but Freemasonry proper is ready as ever , in its
cosmopolitan character , to battle for right , freedom , and goodwill to all men . In that hebdomadal Ishmaelite of Journalism , —The Saturday Review , —of October 14 th , 1865 , an article appeared , entitled " The Pope and the Freemasons , " but so poor in comparison
to the above , on which it bears indisputable marks of having been based , that it deserves but little consideration . The late Duke of Sussex is no favorite of ours , Masonically , for much that he did , as Grand Master , Avas in direct opposition to the Catholicity of the craft . Nor can we say much in favor of
his successor , but no opponent of the principles of either Grand Master could haA e been found to have penned such a damaging sentence as that : —
" The Duke of SUSSEX deA'oted the diabolic powers of a gigantic intellect " to the conduct of a A ast conspiracy against religion , and especially against " Royal families . It is said that the Earl of ZETLAND has succeeded to " the same fearful eminence , and there can be little doubt that his frequent " victories on the turf are to be attributed to the craft of the Masonic
" organization . " Though Ave do not hold the turf to be an ennobling profession for a Grand Master of England , yet Ave have always understood his lordship to be a more than average fair specimen of persons addicted to such pursuits , and Ave beg to deny the Saturday Review any credit for insinuating , —either in joke or earnest , —
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The Papal Allocution Against Freemasonry.
latter is pressing on , rapidly , towards extinction , the former is flourishing more luxuriantly than ever . The Times admits such societies as ours may have been formidable some feAV centuries ago , and so they were . The Papal records , if Ave could but peruse them , Avould confess the same .
The edicts that Eome has issued against us , from the second century to the year just past , prove it . The spirit that animated our mediaeval brethren yet remains , and whilst the guilds of their day have degenerated into " extinct associations , " Freemasonry , —not the operative guild of Masons , a corporation of handicraftsmen as perfectly fossilized as others of the same nature , —but Freemasonry proper is ready as ever , in its
cosmopolitan character , to battle for right , freedom , and goodwill to all men . In that hebdomadal Ishmaelite of Journalism , —The Saturday Review , —of October 14 th , 1865 , an article appeared , entitled " The Pope and the Freemasons , " but so poor in comparison
to the above , on which it bears indisputable marks of having been based , that it deserves but little consideration . The late Duke of Sussex is no favorite of ours , Masonically , for much that he did , as Grand Master , Avas in direct opposition to the Catholicity of the craft . Nor can we say much in favor of
his successor , but no opponent of the principles of either Grand Master could haA e been found to have penned such a damaging sentence as that : —
" The Duke of SUSSEX deA'oted the diabolic powers of a gigantic intellect " to the conduct of a A ast conspiracy against religion , and especially against " Royal families . It is said that the Earl of ZETLAND has succeeded to " the same fearful eminence , and there can be little doubt that his frequent " victories on the turf are to be attributed to the craft of the Masonic
" organization . " Though Ave do not hold the turf to be an ennobling profession for a Grand Master of England , yet Ave have always understood his lordship to be a more than average fair specimen of persons addicted to such pursuits , and Ave beg to deny the Saturday Review any credit for insinuating , —either in joke or earnest , —