There would be plenty of reason for the Masons, sons of the Knights Templar, to have an axe to grind with the Catholic Church of the Ages. It was the Pope and the King of France, after all, who tried to kill off the Templars in 1307, capturing Jack DeMolay and burning him at the stake. I can see holding a grudge for 1100 years or so. And the Pope’s operation still has some cleaning up to do. It’ll take another 1,000 years to recover from the damage that whole inquisition thing did.