During the papal conclave of Aug. 2, 1903 Mariano Cardinal Rampolla Del Tinder was nearly elected pope. Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Josef vetoed the nomination of Rampolla. He was in secret a member of the Lodge of the Freemasons. Pius X was chosen. Taken from "Tumultuous Times" by Fathers Francisco and Dominic Radecki. pages 521-22.
We must speak of Marxism. From the top down. We also had a 1846 letter from Pope IX (?) on Communism. It spelled it out clearly! My family took it seriously and sold everything and fled Bavaria for the US in 1847.