O congresso de Roma / (Conferência realisada pelo delegado portuguez do congresso do livre-pensamento)

The speaker reports on attending an international free-thought congress in Rome and defends a secular, scientific authority over religious power, criticizing the papacy's spiritual and temporal roles as rooted in superstition, clerical abuses, and oppression. The address describes a large procession honoring thinkers who opposed theocratic rule and commemorated reformers, while praising Italy's political and social advances and the energy of revolutionary and socialist movements. It contends that religion is a prehistoric fetichism incompatible with modern education and moral progress and calls for laicity, social justice, and the replacement of clerical domination by science and labor.