Reasons for selecting the Subject—“Catholic Institute,”
a Society such as those commended by Leo XIII., in the
Bull, _Humanum Genus_.—Necessity of keeping Youth from bad
Associations—Necessity of unmasking Secret Societies—Words
of Leo XIII.—Freemasonry and Secret Societies with us—On
the Continent—All Secret Associations Atheistic, and
intensely hostile to the Church, Christianity, and Social
order—Union of all Secret Societies—All knowingly, or
otherwise, under a central direction and control—Fraud and
Force—Review of Atheistic Organization since the first French
Revolution—Features of its Progress.