{"id":298401,"date":"2026-10-20T18:22:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/pope-leo-xiii-against-freemasonry\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T18:22:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:22:40","slug":"pope-leo-xiii-against-freemasonry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/pope-leo-xiii-against-freemasonry\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIII against Freemasonry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"date\">Mar 5, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo XIII&#8217;s 1884 encyclical Humanum Genus is the Church&#8217;s<br \/>\nmost comprehensive explanation of why, ever since 1738, she has<br \/>\nforbidden Catholics to become Freemasons. Reading the encyclical<br \/>\ntoday, one has the thought that its continued relevance has less to<br \/>\ndo with the present-day activities of Masonic organizations, and<br \/>\nmore to do with the fact that Masonic ideas have already come to<br \/>\npervade Western society.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas&#8217;s article about <em>Humanum Genus<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/pope-leo-xiii-against-freemasonry\/\">https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/pope-leo-xiii-against-freemasonry\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo XIII, <em>Humanum Genus<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/leo-xiii\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_l-xiii_enc_18840420_humanum-genus.html\">https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/leo-xiii\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_l-xiii_enc_18840420_humanum-genus.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DONATE to make this show possible!\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio\">http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SIGN UP for Catholic Culture&#8217;s newsletter:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/newsletters\">https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/newsletters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n      var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n      if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n      js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n      js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.8&appId=834757889913083\";\n      fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicculturepodcast.libsyn.com\/pope-leo-xiii-against-freemasonry\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 5, 2026 Pope Leo XIII&#8217;s 1884 encyclical Humanum Genus is the Church&#8217;s most comprehensive explanation of why, ever since 1738, she has forbidden Catholics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}