“WE consider secularism, with its errors and abominable attempts, to be the plague of our times; and you know, venerable brothers, that such impiety did not mature in a single day, but rather incubated long before in the very heart of society. It began by denying Christ’s dominion over all peoples; the Church was denied the right, founded on the right of Christ himself, to teach humankind — that is, to give laws and to guide nations to lead them to eternal happiness. Then, little by little, the Christian religion was equated with other false religions and indecorously degraded to their level. It was then subjected to civil power and the arbitrary permission of rulers and magistrates. And things went further: some of these people imagined replacing the religion of Christ with a kind of natural religion, with purely human feelings. There were even states that believed they could do without God, and they based their religion on impiety and contempt for God.”
— Pope Pius XI, Qyas Primas, 1925
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