Ecclesiam a Jesu Christo - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Ecclesiam a Jesu Christo was a Papal constitution promulgated by Pius VII in 1821.

It stated that Freemasons

Freemasonry

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must be excommunicated for their oath bound secrecy of the society and conspiracies against church and state.

It also linked Freemasonry with the Carbonari

Carbonari

The Carbonari were groups of secret revolutionary societies founded in early 19th-century Italy. The Italian Carbonari may have further influenced other revolutionary groups in Spain, France, Portugal and possibly Russia. Although their goals often had a patriotic and liberal focus, they lacked a...

, an anti-clerical revolutionary group active in Italy

Italy

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. It said that the Carbonari affected a love of the Catholic religion. However the true goals of the Carbonari was said to be:

Religious indifference
Disestablishment of the church and total religious freedom
The profanation of Jesus Christ through their ceremonies
To scorn, and perhaps replace the sacraments of the church
To plot against Papal primacy

All members of the Carbonari were excommunicated, along with those who kept Carbonari secrets
and those promoting Carbonari literature.

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