"In 1884 Pope Leo XIII published the encyclical ""Humanum Genus"", which denounced a number of beliefs and practices such as popular sovereignty and the separation of church and state, in relation to which group in particular?"
Humanum genus Humanum genus Humanum genus is a papal encyclical promulgated on 20 April 1884 by Pope Leo XIII. Released in the ascent of the industrial age, Marxism, and the aftermath of the September 20, 1870, Capture of Rome by the Kingdom of Italy military forces from the Papal States, "Humanum genus" is principally a condemnation of Freemasonry. It states that the late 19th century was a dangerous era for the Roman Catholic Church, largely due to numerous concepts and practices it attributes to Freemasonry, namely naturalism, popular sovereignty, and the separation of church and state. Some of the strictures found in
Theology of Pope Leo XIII which Pope Leo founded on 15 October 1879. Leo XIII appointed thirty members, ten each from Rome, Italy and the world, and provided generous financial support to attract scholars from everywhere. The Pope personally supported individual Thomist scholars and applauded numerous text-critical editions of the Doctor Angelicus. In his 1893 encyclical "Providentissimus Deus," he described the importance of scriptures for theological study. It was an important encyclical for Catholic theology and its relation to the Bible, as Pope Pius XII pointed out fifty years later in his encyclical "Divino Afflante Spiritu". In "Providentissimus Deus", Leo gave new encouragement to Bible