Talk:Catholicism and Freemasonry/to do/seperation
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[edit] Separation of Church and State
Freemasons are seen by the church[1] as prominent advocates of the separation of church and state,[2] a charge many Freemasons will willingly admit. Such separation of church and state was seen by the Church as a veiled attack on its place in public life.[3], manifesting a Religious Indifferentism, which did not accept any religion as true or revealed.[4]
Freemasonry was accused of promoting state supported secular education in opposition to Church education.[3] In Italy Freemasonry has been accused of promoting civil marriage[5] and supporting cremation[6] Freemasonry was also accused of being the motivating force behind the forefeiture of Italian church property[7] and ending Papal temporal authority in the Papal States,[8]
- ^ 'It is held also that the State should be without God; that in the various forms of religion there is no reason why one should have precedence of another; and that they are all to occupy the same place. Paragraph 22, Humanum Genus
- ^ "Freemasonry Does Not Support any particular political position. It has long stood for separation of Church and State, and has been a champion of Free Public Education." From a speech given by Bill Jones Grand Master of Arkansas, 1996
- ^ a b Pope Leo XIII ETSI NOS (On Conditions in Italy), Item 2
- ^ "If the Bloc has been established, this is owing to Freemasonry and to the discipline learned in the lodges. The measures we have now to urge are the separation of Church and State and a law concerning instruction. Let us put our trust in the word of our Bro. Combes" from quoted as footnote 158 in the article Masonry (Freemasonry) in the Catholic Encyclopedia
- ^ "marriages contracted in despite of the laws and without the rites of the Church" Pope Leo XIII ETSI NOS (On Conditions in Italy), Item 2
- ^ ”consider the support Garibaldi gave to the movement to spread, in Italy, the idea and the practice of cremation: a movement that was directly promoted by the masonic lodges and that had many prominent figures of Freemasonry among its most important leaders.” From Giuseppe Garibaldi Massone translated by the Grand Lodge of British Columbia
- ^ "Religious houses suppressed, the goods of the Church confiscated" Pope Leo XIII ETSI NOS (On Conditions in Italy), Item 2
- ^ "For, despoiled of his Civil Princedom, he has of necessity fallen into the hands of another Power." Pope Leo XIII ETSI NOS (On Conditions in Italy), Item 2
