Respectfully: Are you claiming that performing what is obviously some sort of shamanic ritual on the very altar of a Roman Catholic church is not a desecration? Are you asserting that invoking the "help" or "approval" of any supposed supernatural agents other than the Holy Trinity (or such intercessors as the Saints) is not sacrilegious?
Please help me understand.
Regards,
“Please help me understand.”
“Are you claiming that performing what is obviously some sort of shamanic ritual on the very altar of a Roman Catholic church is not a desecration?”
Nope, I’m saying it is not masonic. That, what ever it was, had nothing to do with Masonry or, since it was women, Order of the Eastern Star. And there are a few glaring problems to display that.
If that was a group of women masons, of which are made up recreational groups as historical masonry doesn’t have women masons, they were not wearing aprons which is always done during ritual. Secondly, the alter they were using was angled and there was no religious volume on the alter they were around so they were not preforming any ritual I’ve ever seen or heard about. There should have been other things around the alter that were not there. The audience had no displayed masons in it so their dress was wrong. I saw one cross on the left side of the room and that was it.
The complaint about the ritual was that it was performed in a Catholic church. What I think this is is a display of a native American ritual by four women related to a tribe. The dress and feathers could be the clothing of any tribe with the ribbons hanging from the dresseds and the moccasin style shoes are noticeable. It may not have been religious at all but a dance of some tribal nature.
As for being sacrilegious, as there were no religious parts like crosses or volumes on or around the stand so that was a table not an alter. The furnitiure isn’t what makes the alter, the representation of a religion is.
So the Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò throws the shot at the masons because he can. And doing all this against the masons on his perceived recognition is just a creation to attack a group that is so misunderstood on their beliefs and practices. If I were the Cathilic Church, I’d be emarrassed and shamed for this article as there is nothing in the article that identifies Masonry except by the one archbishop and no one else.
wy69