There are many papal pronouncements against Freemasonry:[1] the most prominent include:
Before Pius IX
- 1738 (1738): Clement XII, In eminenti apostolatus.[1]
- 1751 (1751): Benedict XIV, Providas Romanorum.[1]
- 1821 (1821): Pius VII, Ecclesiam a Jesu Christo.[1]
- 1825 (1825): Leo XII, Quo graviora.[1]
- 1829 (1829): Pius VIII, Traditi humilitati.[1]
- 1830 (1830): Pius VIII, Litteris altero abhinc.[2]
- 1832 (1832): Gregory XVI, Mirari vos.[1][3]
Pius IX
- 1846 (1846): Pius IX, Qui pluribus.[1][4]
- 1849 (1849): Pius IX, Quibus quantisque malis.[1]
- 1864 (1864): Pius IX, Quanta cura.[1]
- 1865 (1865): Pius IX, Multiplices inter.[1]
- 1869 (1869): Pius IX, Apostolicae Sedis moderationi.[1]
- 1873 (1873): Pius IX, Etsi multa.[1]
Leo XIII
- 1882 (1882): Leo XIII, Etsi Nos.[1]
- 1884 (1884): Leo XIII, Humanum genus.[1]
- 1887 (1887): Leo XIII, Officio sanctissimo.[2]
- 1890 (1890): Leo XIII, Dall'alto dell'Apostolico Seggio.[1]
- 1892 (1892): Leo XIII, Custodi di quella fede.[2]
- 1892 (1892): Leo XIII, Inimica vis[2]
- 1894 (1894): Leo XIII, Praeclara gratulationis publicae.[1]
- 1902 (1902): Leo XIII, Annum ingressi.[1]
References
- 1.[1.2][1.3][1.4][1.5][1.6][1.7][1.8][1.9][1.10][1.11][1.12][1.13][1.14][1.15][1.16][1.17][1.18]Gruber 1910; McInvale 1992.
- 2.[2.2][2.3][2.4]McInvale 1992.
- 3."This encyclical does not mention Masonry, but religious indifferentism is one of the charges often leveled against Freemasonry in papal pronouncements. Some Roman Catholic authorities identify this pronouncement as anti-Masonic."
- 4."While not mentioning Masonry directly, it criticizes those it does not identify for those same faults that the previous papal pronouncements imputed to Freemasonry, and is regarded as an anti-Masonic pronouncement by some Catholic sources."