Etsi Nos

Etsi Nos (On Conditions in Italy) was a Papal Encyclical promulgated by Pope Leo XIII in 1882 complaining about the way in which post-unification Italy denigrated the role of the Church,"If ever these perils were menacing in Italy they are surely so now, at a time when the condition of the Civil State itself disastrously imperils the freedom of religion." Paragraph 1, Etsi Nos (On Conditions in Italy) which it blamed primarily on Freemasonry."It is even reported that this year it is about to receive the deputies and leaders of the sect which is most embittered against Catholicism, who have appointed this city as the place for their solemn meeting. The reasons which have determined their choice of such a meeting place are no secret; they desire by this outrageous provocation to glut the hatred which they nourish against the Church, and to bring their incendiary torches within reach of the Roman Pontificate by attacking it in its very seat." Paragraph 3, Etsi Nos (On Conditions in Italy)
== See also ==
* Papal Documents relating to Freemasonry
* Anti-Masonry
* Christianity and Freemasonry
* Catholicism and Freemasonry
* Clarification concerning status of Catholics becoming Freemasons
==References==
Category:Pope Leo XIII
Category:Catholicism and Freemasonry
Category:History of Catholicism in Italy
Category:Freemasonry in Italy
Category:Papal encyclicals
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