Quotes About Encyclical

In 1738, the Pope issued an encyclical banning all participation in Masonry under threat of excommunication.

Pope Julius II issued an encyclical in 1512 declaring that the native people of North America were more than muscle and fiber; in fact, he declared, they had souls. The bad news was, this meant that they were also burdened with Original Sin, thus putting them in urgent need of baptism, which would wipe the stain from their souls.