Dall'alto dell'Apostolico Seggio | |
Language: | Italian |
Translation: | From the height of the Apostolic Throne |
Argument: | On Freemasonry in Italy |
Date: | 15 October 1890 |
Pope: | Leo XIII |
Papal Coat Of Arms: | C o a Leon XIII.svg |
Number: | 34 of 85 |
Before: | Sapientiae Christianae |
After: | Catholicae Ecclesiae |
Web En: | https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_18901015_apostolico-seggio.html |
Pope Leo XIII's papal encyclical on the subject of Freemasonry in Italy, known both by its Italian incipit Italian: Dall'alto dell'Apostolico Seggio and its Latin incipit Latin: Ab apostolici Solii celsitudine, was a promulgated on 15 October 1890.[1]
It dealt with Freemasonry in Italy, condemning the contemporary course of public affairs in Italy as the realization of the "Masonic programme". This "programme" was said to involve a "deadly hatred of the Church", the abolition of religious instruction in schools and the absolute independence of civil society from clerical influence.[2]