Ecclesiam a Jesu Christo
Ecclesiam a Jesu Christo was a Papal bull promulgated by Pius VII in 1821.
It stated that Freemasons must be excommunicated for their oath-bound secrecy of the society and conspiracies against church and state.
It also linked Freemasonry with the Carbonari, an anti-clerical revolutionary group active in Italy. 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