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Fleury's response was to brand the Freemasons as traitors, and ban their assemblies. [12] This ban, and the Italian investigation led, [ 13 ] in 1738, to Pope Clement XII promulgating In eminenti apostolatus , the first canonical prohibition of Masonic associations.
The Church has prohibited its members from being Freemasons since the papal bull In eminenti apostolatus, promulgated in 1738 by Pope Clement XII. Since then, the Vatican has issued several papal bulls banning the membership of Catholics in Freemasonry under threat of excommunication .
Catholic canon law has forbidden membership in Masonic organizations since 1738, with Pope Clement XII's papal bull In eminenti apostolatus. [1] Later popes continued to ban Masonic membership through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The Vatican has confirmed a ban on Catholics becoming Freemasons, a centuries-old secretive society that the Catholic Church has long viewed with hostility and has an estimated global membership ...
There are many papal pronouncements against Freemasonry; [1] the most prominent include: Before Pius IX. 1738 (): Clement XII, In eminenti apostolatus. [1] 1751 ...
In eminenti apostolatus specula is a papal bull issued by Pope Clement XII on 28 April 1738, banning Catholics from becoming Freemasons. It arose from Jacobite -Hanoverian rivalry on the continent. Background
The number of Freemasons from Nazi occupied countries who were killed is not accurately known, but it is estimated that between 80,000 and 200,000 Freemasons were murdered under the Nazi regime. [43] The Government of the United Kingdom established Holocaust Memorial Day [ 44 ] to recognise all groups who were targets of the Nazi regime, and ...
The Papal encyclical Etsi multa of Pope Pius IX in 1873 claimed that Freemasonry was the motivating force behind the Kulturkampf: "Some of you may perchance wonder that the war against the Catholic Church extends so widely. Indeed each of you knows well the nature, zeal, and intention of sects, whether called Masonic or some other name.