{"podcast":{"title":"The Catholic Culture Podcast","slug":"the-catholic-culture-podcast-1139155","podcast_index_feed_id":1139155,"rss_url":"https://catholicculturepodcast.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.catholicculture.org","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/1/c/b/9/1cb947e761033b53/CCpodcast-2021-Square3000x3000.png","author":"Thomas V. Mirus","episode_count":255,"summary":"In-depth discussions of all things Catholic - theology, art, history and more - featuring Thomas Mirus with a variety of notable guests. A production of CatholicCulture.org.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-18T08:18:32.638893+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-catholic-culture-podcast-1139155"},"episode":{"title":"Pope Leo XIII against Freemasonry","slug":"pope-leo-xiii-against-freemasonry","published_at":"2026-03-05T04:27:55+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-catholic-culture-podcast-1139155/pope-leo-xiii-against-freemasonry","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-catholic-culture-podcast-1139155","url":"https://catholicculturepodcast.libsyn.com/pope-leo-xiii-against-freemasonry","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/catholicculturepodcast/213.mp3?dest-id=669698","summary":"Pope Leo XIII's 1884 encyclical Humanum Genus is the Church's most comprehensive explanation of why, ever since 1738, she has forbidden Catholics to become Freemasons. Reading the encyclical today, one has the thought that its continued relevance has less to do with the present-day activities of Masonic organizations, and more to do with the fact that Masonic ideas have already come to pervade Western society. Thomas's article about Humanum Genus https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/pope-leo-xiii-against-freemasonry/ Pope Leo XIII, Humanum Genus https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_18840420_humanum-genus.html DONATE to make this show possible! http://catholicculture.org/donate/audio SIGN UP for Catholic Culture's newsletter: https://www.catholicculture.org/newsletters","meta_description":"Pope Leo XIII's 1884 encyclical Humanum Genus is the Church's most comprehensive explanation of why, ever since 1738, she has forbidden Catholics to becom…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1728,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-catholic-culture-podcast-1139155/episodes/pope-leo-xiii-against-freemasonry/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-catholic-culture-podcast-1139155/pope-leo-xiii-against-freemasonry.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}