Talk:Catholicism and Freemasonry/to do/1905

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[edit] 1905 Separation of Church and State

Catholic sources, quoting Masonic documents from both the United Grand Lodge of England and the Grand Orient of France,[1] saw Freemasonry as the primary force of French anti-clericalism from 1877 onwards.[2] The 1905 separation of Church and State was pushed through largely on the initiative of the interior minister, Émile Combes, an active freemason.[3] French Masonic publications had gone further than the anti-clericalism of 1905, expressing the hope that religious orders (or congregations) should be expelled from France.[4] The Catholic Encyclopedia claims that French Freemasonry was the inspiration behind the suppression of religious orders, the nationalisation of Church resources, measures against Catholic charitable establishments and private Christian schools and the secularization of public education.[5]

  1. ^ The Freemason's Chronicle, 1889, I, 81 sq and Bulletin du Grand Orient de France 1890, 500 sq - cited as footnotes 157 and 158 Masonry (Freemasonry) from the Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. ^ "French Masonry and above all the Grand Orient of France has displayed the most systematic activity as the dominating political element in the French "Kulturkampf" since 1877." From Masonry (Freemasonry) from the Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. ^ Bigots united in the Guardian, October 9, 2005
  4. ^ "The Republic must rid itself of the religious congregations, sweeping them off by a vigorous stroke. The system of half measures is everywhere dangerous; the adversary must be crushed with a single blow" Massé in the Compte rendu du Grand Orient de France, 1903, cited in Nourrisson, "Les Jacobins", 266-271 and then Masonry (Freemasonry) in the Catholic Encyclopedia
  5. ^ ". In truth all the "anti-clerical" Masonic reforms carried out in France since 1877, such as the secularization of education, measures against private Christian schools and charitable establishments, the suppression of the religious orders and the spoliation of the Church, professedly culminate in an anti-Christian and irreligious reorganization of human society, not only in France but throughout the world." From Masonry (Freemasonry) from the Catholic Encyclopedia Less specific allegations are made in the 1967 New Catholic Encyclopedia. "From the fall of the MacMahon government in 1877 to the start of World War II, Masonic politicians controlled the French government. They passed anticlerical laws designed to restrict the Church's influence, especially in education." New Catholic Encyclopedia, 1967 ed, Volume 6, p. 135, McGraw-Hill, New York. The most recent edition (2002) does not contain any article on Freemasonry.
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