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No, Humanist developed in Italy during the Renaissance, and the Italians tried to recover ancient classical civilization, starting around 1350. Northern Humanism found Italian humanism too pagan, and northern humanism crossed into heresy and criticizing the Church.

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from History of the Catholic Church from the Apostolic Age to the Third Millennium, by James Hitchcock, Imprimatur: The Most Reverend Edward Rice, © 2012 by Ignatius Press, San Francisco

Since the Enlightenment, secularist had accused the Church of being anti-humanist, because She subordinated man to God. But by the beginning of the twenty-first century, it had become apparent that without God the dignity of man could no longer be affirmed, that many secularist had come to reject humanism precisely because it placed man at the summit of nature. Thus, ironically, the Catholic Church, as She had since the time of Her birth, claimed to be both the representative of God and the chief witness to true Humanism.

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