Papal documents relating to Freemasonry

Contents

There are many papal pronouncements against Freemasonry:[1] the most prominent include:

Before Pius IX

Pius IX

Leo XIII

References

  1. 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][2.3][2.4]McInvale 1992.
  3. 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. 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."