"The Pope will never come to the secret societies. It is for the secret societies to come first to the Church; in the resolve to conquer the two ... in order to secure to us a Pope in the manner required, it is necessary to fashion for that Pope a generation worthy of the reign of which we dream.., go to the youth ... in a few years the young clergy will be called upon to choose the Pontiff..." Let them "march under your banner in the belief always that they march under the banner of the Apostolic Keys. Lay your nets in the depths of sacristies, seminaries and convents... and you will have fished up a Revolution in Tiara and Cope marching with Cross and banner ..."

At least two eminent Catholic prelates have recently issued public warnings that they consider the Alta Vendita's coldly scientific plan for the destruction of Catholicism may be nearing its fulfillment: Archbishop Lefebvre in his circular letter No. 10 of March 1976, and the Bishop of Regensburg, Dr. Graber, in his 'Athanasius and the Church of our Time.' The latter refers to the work of dechristianisation of the secret societies, and Archbishop Lefebvre reminds us that Plus IX ordered the publication of the documents of the Alta Vendita of the Carbonari, and quotes part of the passage which we have cited above.

Mgr. Dillon's work, which was originally published in 1885 as 'The War of Antichrist with the Church and Christian Civilisation,' contains the full text of this remarkable document now in the Vatican Archives, as well as a wealth of other material covering the rise and progress of atheism; its extension through Voltaire; its use of Freemasonry and kindred societies for anti-Christian war; Weishaupt and Illuminism; its progress in the First French Revolution, and under Nubius, Palmerston and Mazzini; the control of its hidden "inner circle" over all revolutionary organisations; its influence over British Freemasonry, and its attempts upon Ireland.

This edition contains a comprehensive index and a valuable introduction (1950) by the Rev. D. Fahey, C.S.Sp., and the book as a whole contains vital source material on the nature and rise of Freemasonry in Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Table of Contents

Publishers Foreword
Foreword

I. Good Versus Evil
II. The Rise of Atheism in Europe
III. Voltaire
IV. Freemasonry
V. The Union and "Illuminism" of
     Freemasonry
VI. The Illuminism of Adam
      Weishaupt
VII. The Convent of Wilhelmsbad
VIII. Cabalistic Masonry or Masonic
        Spiritism
IX. The French Revolution
X. Napoleon and Freemasonry
XI. Freemasonry After the Fall of
     Napoleon

XII. Kindred Secret Societies in Europe
XIII. The Cabonari
XIV. Permanent Instruction of the Alta
        Vendita
XV. Letter of Piccolo Tigre
XVI. The Intellectual and the War Party
        in Masonry
XVII. Lord Palmerston
XVIII. War of the Intellectual Party
XIX. A War Party Under Palmerston
XX. The International, the Nihilists,
       the Black Hand, Etc.
XXI. Freemasonry with Ourselves
XXII. Fenianism
XXIII. Conclusion

Index

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