“FULL of the spirit of Satan, who, according to the words of the Apostle, knows how to transform himself at need into an angel of light, it [Freemasonry] gives prominence to its humanitarian object, but it sacrifices everything to its sectarian purpose and protests that it has no political aim, while in reality it exercises the most profound action on the legislative and administrative life of the nations, and while loudly professing its respect for authority and even for religion, has for its ultimate purpose, as its own statutes declare, the destruction of all authority as well as of the priesthood, both of which it holds up as the enemies of liberty.”

— Pope Leo XIII, Annum Ingressi, March 1902

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