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1907 - St. Pope PIUS X: PASCENDI DOMINICI GREGIS
On Modernism “the synthesis of all heresies”
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1570 - Pope PIUS V: Quo Primum
On the Tridentine Liturgy: "Therefore, no one whosoever is permitted to alter this notice of Our permission, statute, ordinance, command, precept, grant, indult, declaration, will, decree, and prohibition. Would anyone, however, presume to commit such an act, he should know that he will incur the wrath of Almighty God and of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul."
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1738 - Pope Clement XII: In Eminenti
First condemnation of Freemasonry: "For if they were not doing evil they would not have so great a hatred of the light."
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1884 - Pope LEO XIII: HUMANUM GENUS
On Freemasonry's errors and its opposition to the church:
On opposition to church teachings: 2. [..] "No longer making any secret of their purposes, they are now boldly rising up against God Himself. They are planning the destruction of holy Church publicly and openly, and this with the set purpose of utterly despoiling the nations of Christendom, if it were possible, of the blessings obtained for us through Jesus Christ our Saviour."
On equality of religion: 16. [..] "they thereby teach the great error of this age-that a regard for religion should be held as an indifferent matter, and that all religions are alike. This manner of reasoning is calculated to bring about the ruin of all forms of religion, and especially of the Catholic religion, which, as it is the only one that is true, cannot, without great injustice, be regarded as merely equal to other religions."
On marriage and education of childred: 21. [..] "that marriage belongs to the genus of commercial contracts, which can rightly be revoked by the will of those who made them, and that the civil rulers of the State have power over the matrimonial bond; that in the education of youth nothing is to be taught in the matter of religion as of certain and fixed opinion; and each one must be left at liberty to follow, when he comes of age, whatever he may prefer."
- 2002 - Card. Joseph Ratzinger on the Diaconate: From the Diakonia of Christ to the Diakonia of the Apostles
Popes:
(from traditioninaction.org)13th Century
- Innocent III (1198 - 1216) - Bad, worked for his family reputation
16th Century
- Pope Pius V
19th Century
- Servant of God Pius VII
- Leo XII
- Pius VIII
- Gregory XVI
- Bl. Pius IX (1846 - 1878) - Good, Being canonised
- Leo XIII (1878 - 1903) - Bad, worked for his family. United church views with Masonry and French Revolution views. Chose all of the cardinals who elected Pope St Pius X. Good catholic press sufferred in his reign
20th century
- St. Pius X (1903 - 1914) - Good, condemned Modernism. Murdered
- Benedict XV
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Pius XI (Fr. Clement)
«If our age in its pride laughs at and rejects Our Lady's Rosary, a countless legion of the most saintly men of every age and of every condition have not only held it most dear and have most piously recited it but have also used it at all times as a most powerful weapon to overcome the devil, to preserve the purity of their lives, to acquire virtue more zealously, in a word to promote peace among men.»
Pope Pius XI, Ingravescentibus Malis, On the Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 1937
- Ven. Pius XII
- St. John XXIII (Started Second Vatican Council in 1962)
- St. Paul VI
- Bl. John Paul I
- St. John Paul II
21st century
- Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger)