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Etsi multa

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Etsi multa (On The Church In Italy, Germany, And Switzerland) is a papal encyclical that was published by Pope Pius IX on November 21, 1873.

The encyclical claimed that there were three campaigns being waged against the Church at the time:

  • The Kulturkampf in the German Empire.
  • The suppression by the post-unification Italian authorities of the Gregorian University.
  • The expulsion of Gaspard Mermillod, the Vicar Apostolic of Geneva, Switzerland.
  • The enforcement of popular election of Catholic clerics in Geneva and to take an oath the Papacy found objectionable.
  • Anti-Catholic laws in the Swiss Cantons of Solothurn, Bern, Basel-Landschaft, Aargau and Zurich.
  • Suppression of Catholic priests in Jura.

    • It condemned Freemasonry, which was blamed for the widespread attack on the Catholic Church, accusing it of being "the Synagogue of Satan".

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    Etsi multa Wikipedia
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