Humanum Genus is a papal encyclical promulgated on April 20, 1884, by Pope Leo XIII. Coming in the ascent of the industrial age and Marxism, it posited that the late 19th Century was a dangerous era for Christians, and condemned Freemasonry as well as a number of beliefs and practices allegedly associated with Freemasonry, including naturalism, popular sovereignty which does not recognize God, and the idea that the state should be "without God". Some of the encyclical's strictures remain in force today.
The encyclical specifically condemned certain practices of the Freemasons, such as: religious indifference;[1] the promotion of public education which denied the Church's role and where "the education of youth shall be exclusively in the hands of laymen";[2] the approval of the notion that the people are the only source of sovereignty, and that "those who rule have no authority but by the commission and concession of the people."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanum_Genus
Recommend the excellent book "Born in Blood, The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry," by John J. Robinson
http://www.amazon.com/Born-Blood-Lost-Secrets-Freemasonry/product-reviews/1590771486/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
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