Iamdudum in Lusitania

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Iamdudum in Lusitania (according to: Long ago in Lusitania / Portugal) is the name of the encyclical Pius X of May 24, 1911 about the separation of church and state in Portugal .

Historical background

On October 5, 1910, under the leadership of the republican Teófilo Braga, the clerical monarchy was abolished and the republic was proclaimed in Portugal . King Emanuel II fled to England . The new anti-clerical government set its policy against the church, which sparked Jesuit monasteries on, imprisoned as a reactionary force Catholic priests and monks and prohibited wearing religious habits in public. State religious education was abolished, civil marriage and divorce law were introduced, and religious reference points in the state and politics were eliminated. These changes prompted Pope Pius X to address his confreres in Portugal with the encyclical , which was also written in Portuguese .

Oppression of the church

Pope Pius X branded the laws separating church and state as a crime ; these laws would fuel an inexorable hatred of the Church. He lists the individual measures and legislations of the Republicans and complains about the restrictions on the right to freedom of religion and the imprisonment of priests as persecution and speaks against the riots against the bishops of Porto and Beja .

Damnation

From the height of the Apostolic See , the Pope despised and condemned the laws and rejected all state decrees separating the Church and the Portuguese state. The laws represent a breach of law and nature and an attack on the divine constitution and are an attack on the freedom of the church. The Pope declared these state orders null and void and not feasible for Christians.

Duty of the clergy

Pius X called his confreres to be steadfast in the hope that, with God's help, everything would turn out for the better. He called on priests, bishops and all clerics to public resistance : a life in bondage was more meaningful than service under bondage . However, personal freedom should be higher. The highest duty is the cohesion of the Christian communities and the preservation of the church. He called on the bishops of the rest of the world to support his confreres in Portugal.

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