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Date Posted: 12:10:42 05/07/02 Tue Of all the Papal condemnations of Freemasonry, Pope Leo XIII's 1884 Encyclical Humanum Genus stands unparalleled in strength and brilliance. A more complete and concise explanation and condemnation of the evils and errors of Masonry will not be found in any other magisterial pronouncement. Again and again in this encyclical, the Pope emphasizes that the goal of Freemasonry is nothing less than the utter destruction of the Church and Christianity. He writes: "No longer making any secret of their purpose, they are now boldly rising up against God Himself. They are planning the destruction of the holy Church publicly and openly, and this with the set purpose of utterly despoiling the nations of Christendom, if it were possible, of the blessings obtained for us through Jesus Christ our Saviour." Pope Leo explains that since Masonry is based on Naturalism, it is anti-Christian in its essence. Naturalism holds that human nature and human reason are supreme, and that there are no truths revealed by God that men are bound to believe. Naturalists deny the authority of the Catholic church as God's voice upon earth, and therefore, "it is against the Church that the rage and the attack of the enemies [Freemasons] principally directed." Pope Leo XIII refers to the testimony of "well-informed men" both in the past and more recently who have "declared it to be true of the Freemasons that they especially desire to assail the Church with irreconcilable hostility, and that they will never rest until they have destroyed whatever the supreme Pontiffs have established for the sake of religion." He also points out that the Freemasons consider it lawful to "attack with impunity the very foundations of the Catholic religion, in speech, in writing and in teaching." I invite the subscribers to this list to visit the Google search engine at: http://www.google.com and in the search box, type Humanum Genus, which will bring you links in relation to this great Encyclical. You can then save it on your disk for off-line study. If you know any misguided Catholics who are Freemasons, you should warn them of their folly. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j.caughey [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |