Darth Simian
2012-04-07 11:41:00 UTC
N Bendtner 3 - 2
I have foreseen it.
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"We wish it to be your rule first of all to tear away the mask from
Freemasonry and to let it be seen as it really is" warned Pope Leo
XIII in his monumental encyclical Humanum Genus( 1884). Referring to
Masonry as "this foul plague," Leo XIII urged pastoral sermons warning
the Faithful that Masonry and related secret societies were "seducing
men and enticing them into their ranks" in order to fill them with
"the depravity of their opinions and the wickedness of their acts".
Leo XIII was by no means the first Pope to warn of the evils of
Freemasonry. Pope Clement XII had been the first to do so in 1738,
then Benedict XIV, Pius VI, Leo XII, Pius VII, Pius VIII, Gregory XVI,
and Pius IX. In Human Genus, Leo XIII emphasized the urgency of the
earlier warnings and stated that the Freemasons "are boldly rising up
against God Himself. They are planning the destruction of Holy
Church ... and this with the set purpose of utterly despoiling the
nations of Christendom ..."
I have foreseen it.
--
"We wish it to be your rule first of all to tear away the mask from
Freemasonry and to let it be seen as it really is" warned Pope Leo
XIII in his monumental encyclical Humanum Genus( 1884). Referring to
Masonry as "this foul plague," Leo XIII urged pastoral sermons warning
the Faithful that Masonry and related secret societies were "seducing
men and enticing them into their ranks" in order to fill them with
"the depravity of their opinions and the wickedness of their acts".
Leo XIII was by no means the first Pope to warn of the evils of
Freemasonry. Pope Clement XII had been the first to do so in 1738,
then Benedict XIV, Pius VI, Leo XII, Pius VII, Pius VIII, Gregory XVI,
and Pius IX. In Human Genus, Leo XIII emphasized the urgency of the
earlier warnings and stated that the Freemasons "are boldly rising up
against God Himself. They are planning the destruction of Holy
Church ... and this with the set purpose of utterly despoiling the
nations of Christendom ..."