Freda Boot
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first heard Aug 2026
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Their condition was bad during the penal days, but if the French obtained the mastery even for a decade at the Revolution, it would be worse, I believe, for the faith and liberty of Irish Catholics, than the previous two centuries of heretical persecution.
Providence, moved by the prayers of God's mother, of Saint Patrick, and of the innumerable host of Irish saints and martyrs, no doubt saved the country, and the agency of the atheists of France was carried to work the mischief it intended for Ireland upon other Catholic lands.
It forced its tyranny very soon upon Italy, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, and the Rhenish provinces of Germany.
That was bad enough, but it was not all.
When the French revolutionary armies had departed from these countries after the fall of Bonaparte, they left a deadly scourge that could not be removed behind them.
That was the system of atheistic organization of which we have been speaking, and which was not slow in producing its malignant fruits.
In Catholic Italy, where the scourge of the revolution fell most heavily, the misfortune happened thus.
The discontent consequent upon the multitude of political parties in that country gave the secret machinaders of the Weishaupt school a splendid opportunity of again renewing their intrigues, while the miserable government of the Bourbon in France, in permitting Freemasonry to flourish, afforded its supreme direction an opportunity to assist them in many ways.
Public opinion in Germany was unripe for any atheism unless veiled under the hypocritical pretenses of the Tugendbund.
In Italy, however, though religion was strong amongst all classes, it
The division of the country into small principalities caused the hopes of the revolutionists to be more sanguine than anywhere else, and the opportunity of dealing a blow at the temporal power of the Pope under the national pretext of a united Italy was too great a temptation for the supreme Masonic Directory to resist.
Besides, it could not be forgotten by them that
that in making past efforts the power of the Pope was the principal cause of their many failures.
They rightly judged that the complete destruction of his temporal authority was essential to atheism, and the first and most necessary step to their ultimate views upon all Christianity, and for the subjugation of the world to their sway.
The temporal power was the stronghold, the rallying point of every legitimate authority in Europe.
With a sure instinct of self preservation, the schismatical lord of Russia, the evangelical king of Prussia
The Protestant governments of England, Denmark, and Sweden, as well as the ancient legitimate Catholic dynasties of Portugal, Austria, Bavaria, and Spain, had determined at the Congress of Vienna on the restoration of the temporal dominions of the Pope.
The conservatives of Europe, whether Catholic, Protestant, or schismatic, felt that while the states of the Church were preserved intact to the head of the Catholic religion, the
Their own rights would remain unquestioned, that to reach themselves, his rights should be first assailed.
The atheistic conspiracy guided now by old, experienced revolutionists, saw also that the conservatism of the world which they had to destroy in order to dominate in its stead was
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