Engraving of Pope Pius IX making a papal allocution, or speech, to his cardinals on 18 March 1861 called Jamdudum cernimus, a declaration that the papacy cannot support any system to de-christianize the world, as was brewing with the rise of evolution and athiesism. From Punch magazine, 1861.

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