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Which order is the enemy of Freemasonry?
Freemasonry has no single institutional enemy by definition, but historically its principal and most persistent opponent has been the Roman Catholic Church. Beginning with Pope Clement XII’s papal bull In Eminenti in 1738, the Papacy condemned the Fraternity for indiscriminately admitting men of all religions, requiring binding oaths of secrecy, and operating outside ecclesiastical control. Subsequent papal decrees—including those of Benedict XIV and Leo XIII's encyclical Humanum Genus—reaffirmed this stance, positioning the Latin Church in direct opposition to the Fraternity.
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Is Freemasonry at odds with the catholic church
The Catholic Church officially prohibited Catholics from joining Freemasonry under pain of automatic excommunication through Pope Clement XII's papal bull In Eminenti in 1738. The papacy objected primarily to the Craft's open admission of men of all religious faiths, its strict oaths of secrecy, and perceived threats to spiritual and civil order. Pope Benedict XIV renewed this condemnation in 1751. Enforcement varied widely across jurisdictions: Cardinal Firrao issued an edict imposing death and confiscation of property within the Papal States, and the Inquisition prosecuted Masons in Italy, whereas the Parliament of Paris refused to register the bull.
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