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Article THE PAPAL ALLOCUTION AGAINST FREEMASONRY. ← Page 8 of 16 →
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The Papal Allocution Against Freemasonry.
one , is equally applicable to all , and ' would be much more in harmony with the feelings of the present day than the matter
m common use . The fact , —if it is a fact , and Ave very much doubt if it could be proved one , —of the late Lord Palmerston being a member neither makes us more , or less , loyal , or Christian . It is the weak point of an otherwise able article .
We have given some clue why the Pope has been provoked to such a demonstration against us , but there is another . reason unknown to our contemporary . Tho Italian kingdom is a sore point with the Court of Eome , and the Pope , very naturally ; looks upon it as any of us would do if a distant relative suddenly came forward , claimed , and took j ) osscssion of a part of our inheritance which Ave had derived from a long series of
ancestors . JSTOAV Ave are in a position to know that Freemasonry has been used as a mighty lever towards this object . That many of the foremost advocates of Italian nationality are brethren , and that great use has been made of Masonic organizations to further that end . Naturally enough the Pope says if Freemasons
are taking an active part in trying to divide my temporal from my spiritual kingdom , as they oppose my sovereignty they must be disloyal , and as Avell as being the enemies of the Church they are dangerous to the State , and so his Holiness binds up his temporal and spiritual affairs , and if you transgress against one lie has the pains and penalties of the other to put in motion .
• The Times says it is not Freemasonry , or any Secret Society , that has withdraAvn the intelligence of Europe from Catholicism , so much as the general advance of free thought and personal liberty , but on this point many of us knoAv to the contrary . Our previous remarks pointed out that it Avas no others than
Freemasons that fostered this development of intelligence . That Freemasons Avere ever in the van of opposition to the encroachments of the Eoman Pontiffs . That our Order was Christian before there was a Bishop of Eome . That Freemasonry and the Papacy as they grew together in years so they never ceased to differ , and now , as the signs of the times show , whilst the
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The Papal Allocution Against Freemasonry.
one , is equally applicable to all , and ' would be much more in harmony with the feelings of the present day than the matter
m common use . The fact , —if it is a fact , and Ave very much doubt if it could be proved one , —of the late Lord Palmerston being a member neither makes us more , or less , loyal , or Christian . It is the weak point of an otherwise able article .
We have given some clue why the Pope has been provoked to such a demonstration against us , but there is another . reason unknown to our contemporary . Tho Italian kingdom is a sore point with the Court of Eome , and the Pope , very naturally ; looks upon it as any of us would do if a distant relative suddenly came forward , claimed , and took j ) osscssion of a part of our inheritance which Ave had derived from a long series of
ancestors . JSTOAV Ave are in a position to know that Freemasonry has been used as a mighty lever towards this object . That many of the foremost advocates of Italian nationality are brethren , and that great use has been made of Masonic organizations to further that end . Naturally enough the Pope says if Freemasons
are taking an active part in trying to divide my temporal from my spiritual kingdom , as they oppose my sovereignty they must be disloyal , and as Avell as being the enemies of the Church they are dangerous to the State , and so his Holiness binds up his temporal and spiritual affairs , and if you transgress against one lie has the pains and penalties of the other to put in motion .
• The Times says it is not Freemasonry , or any Secret Society , that has withdraAvn the intelligence of Europe from Catholicism , so much as the general advance of free thought and personal liberty , but on this point many of us knoAv to the contrary . Our previous remarks pointed out that it Avas no others than
Freemasons that fostered this development of intelligence . That Freemasons Avere ever in the van of opposition to the encroachments of the Eoman Pontiffs . That our Order was Christian before there was a Bishop of Eome . That Freemasonry and the Papacy as they grew together in years so they never ceased to differ , and now , as the signs of the times show , whilst the