The War Upon Religion by Cunningham

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[Illustration: POPE PIUS X.]

The War Upon Religion

Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-Christianism in Europe

By Rev. Francis A. Cunningham

Boston The Pilot Publishing Company 1911

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_Nihil Obstat_: David J. Toomey, Ph. D., S. T. D. Censor Deputatus.

_Imprimatur_: _GULIELMUS Archiep. Boston._

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Contents

CHAPTER I. THE EARLIER CRISES.

Influence of the Reformation-- Jansenism-- The Abbey of Port Royal-- Quesnel-- The Bull "Unigenitus"-- Destructive Influence of Jansenism-- Not Quite Extinguished Even Yet-- Quietism-- Molinos and Madame Guyon-- Louis XIV. and Gallicanism-- The Gallican Liberties-- Resistance to Them-- Gallicanism One of the Chief Causes of Anti-Christianism in France-- Van Espen and the Pseudo-Canonists-- Johannes von Hontheim, Known as Febronius-- His Hostility to the Papal Supremacy-- Scipio di Ricci-- The Congress of Ems-- Joseph II. of Austria and the Josephine Schism-- Suppression of the Society of Jesus-- The Sophists-- Voltaire and the Encyclopaedists-- Freemasonry-- Neo-Paganism Page 1

CHAPTER II. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.

Immediate Causes-- The States General-- Confiscation of Church Property-- Persecution of Religious Orders-- The Civil Constitution-- Sorrow of Pope Pius VI.-- His Condemnation of the Civil Constitution-- The Constituent Assembly-- Massacres of September-- The Convention-- Changing the Calendar-- Persecution of Catholics-- The Reign of Terror-- The Goddess of Reason-- The Worship of the Supreme Being-- The Council of Five Hundred, or the Directory-- Arrest and Exile of Pope Pius VI.-- The Death of the Pontiff in France Page 51

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