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Posted on 08/15/2026 8:46:50 AM PDT by Pontiac
Umberto Longo, appointed to the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, appears repeatedly in Masonic records.
Pope Leo has appointed a historian who appears repeatedly in Masonic records to a Vatican historical committee.
On August 13, Pope Leo XIV appointed Umberto Longo, director of the Italian Historical Institute for the Middle Ages and professor of medieval history at Sapienza University of Rome, as a member of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences.
The appointment comes despite documentary evidence connecting him to Freemasonry, including records from the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite and later appearances by Longo at events organized within the sphere of the major Masonic lodge in Italy, the Grand Orient of Italy (GOI).
On February 9, 2019, for example, Longo participated in the conference “God and People. Roman Republic. 170 years of love,” organized in Rome by the GOI and the District College of Worshipful Masters of Lazio. The surviving video provides visual evidence of Longo speaking at the event, opened by Giuseppe Bramucci, a Master Mason. In particular, Longo gave a lecture titled “The Legacy of the Roman Republic.”
The Roman Republic of 1849 was deeply influenced by the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity that spread through Europe after the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, and was founded in hatred against the Roman Pontiff. The Republic’s leaders – including Giuseppe Mazzini – were mostly Freemasons and shared with the Masonic tradition a vision of a moral and civic regeneration of humanity, grounded in reason and universal brotherhood rather than religious authority.
Although the video itself does not provide sufficient proof of Longo’s Masonic affiliation — Masonic lodges often invite to public conferences individuals sympathetic to Masonic thought who are not initiated members — it nonetheless constitutes evidence that Longo holds a distinctly favorable view of Masonic culture and ideals.
There are, however, other elements to be considered. In particular, a 2014 issue of Logos, the journal of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in Italy, contains an article written by “Fr. Oratore Umberto Longo 9°” among the officers of the Lodge of Perfection of Secret Masters “Giano” in Rome. The article regards the history, ritual, and initiatory development of the Scottish Rite.
The title “Fr.” is used in the publication as an abbreviation for “Fratello” (“Brother”), while the number indicates the Masonic degree. In particular, the number “9°” means that he attained the Ninth Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, namely that of Elect of the Nine.
This does not definitively prove that the Longo presented as a Brother Mason in Logos is the same individual who took part in the 2019 Masonic conference in Rome. Nevertheless, the coincidence of two namesakes — both from Rome and both specialists in the history of the Scottish Rite — seems highly unlikely. Moreover, the news section of the Grand Orient of Italy’s website repeatedly mentions Umberto Longo as a regular guest at their conferences.
In addition to the announcement of the 2019 Rome event, he also appears among the speakers at a 2014 conference devoted — once again — to the history of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.
And in December 2022, Longo took part in a conference on Hugo Pratt, the renowned Italian comic artist who was himself a Freemason. The conference was organized by “Fondazione Scozzese Triveneta,” a cultural institution connected to the milieu of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.
During his lecture, Longo describes with remarkable precision the stages of the Masonic initiation ritual: the chamber of reflection, the divesting of metals, the inner journey. He presents them not merely as a subject of historical study, but as a “complete representation” which he interprets using the kind of languageof someone well-versed in the Order’s symbolism.
At the end of his lecture, Longo concludes by placing himself, Hugo Pratt, Corto Maltese, and the audience within a single shared category: “Corto and Ugo know well that an initiate can only be a traveler… Pratt and Corto embody all of this, with a gentle smile, without dogmas, without claims to primacy; they are gentlemen of fortune. And, after all, so are we.”
Even more striking is that, at the conclusion of the conference, a man introduced as the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite took the floor to thank the speaker, referring to him verbatim as “Brother Professor Longo.”
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“Their practices are to be kept secret. It hard to keep your membership secret if you wear a Mason ring.
It’s just the way we do things in lodge that is secret now. In the early days the Freemasons traveled to many countries and townships to do the work the locals couldn’t do. Nowadays we all work and live in towns, we have lodges well advertized with our hours of meetings and other functions, and we don’t have to hide from the public. And you can bet bank that many of the people that discredit us have no idea who we are or what we do.
The Catholic Church forbids its members from joining Freemasonry because it views the core ideas of the Masonic movement as irreconcilable with Catholic doctrine. This prohibition, active since 1738 and reaffirmed by the Vatican in late 2023, states that active Masonic membership is a grave sin that prevents a Catholic from receiving Holy Communion.
The Catholic Church’s determination that Freemasonry promotes religious indifferentism—the belief that all religions are equal paths to God—is a core theological reason for the Church’s ban on membership, but it is not framed as a response to physical “church attacks”. Instead, the Church views the Masonic worldview as a spiritual and philosophical threat. Seems kind of non-democratic doesn’t it just because we accept al who wish to do the good work we do.
And when you enter a new town, and you see the sign with all the groups that are in the town, many times you find a sign about freemasons right next to the rotary, knights of columbus, elks, lions, or any other group. To be one, you have to ask one. But the reward is our efforts and not really to us but to our many charities. We don’t hide that either.
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Similar experience here. The Lodge was a few blocks away. I saw some buddies out front and talked to them. They were DeMolay. I went home and asked by folks. No, I was not going to join anything to do with the Masons. Most families have Masons in their linage. WM today.
I’m not Catholic, but it sure looks like Catholicism is rotting from the head down.
Back in the day I was a member of the Rotary Club.
Everything was public information—no secrets.
Nah, just the Church of Rome assimilating more paganism.
Masonry requires that a man profess a belief in Deity and the immortality of the soul. Kind of like the Boy Scouts (at least way they used to be - I don’t know anymore). If it required more than that then it would lose its non-sectarian nature and put it in competition with churches.
The Boy Scouts in its first iteration was a non-sectarian Christian Organization at large.
In its local organization it could be Baptist, Catholic, Methodist or Anglican. Basically it could be organized around a particular local Christian church.
Once the Scouts started accepting homosexuals many Christian church abandoned the Scouts and start organizations like the Navigators. (https://www.navigatorsusa.org/)
I am not advocating the Navigators. It is just the alternative that came to mind. The Masons do not and did not care what deity or deities you worship. They care only that you acknowledge a superior power.
Masonry = Disciplined Luciferianism
“On August 13, Pope Leo XIV appointed Umberto Longo, director of the Italian Historical Institute for the Middle Ages and professor of medieval history at Sapienza University of Rome, as a member of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences”
Pontifical committee members for non-theological committees don’t have to be Catholic and often aren’t, as the author should be well aware. For instance, Stephen Hawking was an advisor to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
Although the video itself does not provide sufficient proof of Longo’s Masonic affiliation — Masonic lodges often invite to public conferences individuals sympathetic to Masonic thought who are not initiated members.....
We also invite people to open events who have no association with Masonry except knowing another person....
2B1 Ask1
We do?
Gosh, do tell....
The secret is finding that friend you can cry over things you don’t want anyone to find out about or Laugh Your Azz Off about things you thought were funny but, you wouldn’t anyone to know you thought it was funny.....even though we probably think it still is....
We actually have an order of Water Buffalo’s.
I’m a member...
A Shriner is a Mason who likes to have fun and drink a lot (a definition of a Shriner provided to me by a Shriner when I asked him about that.)
I looked up what this officer of the Scottish Rite is (according to Wikipedia): The head of the Southern Jurisdiction is titled the Sovereign Grand Commander.
He must be a 33 degree Mason. The Council consist of no more than 33 men.
The Southern District controls 35 States and calls itself the Mother Council of the World
It seems unlikely to me, that such a man devoted as he is to Masonry, would call a non-member "Brother".
Well I reckon its better than washing muslim’s feet...
This does not definitively prove that the Longo presented as a Brother Mason in Logos is the same individual who took part in the 2019 Masonic conference in Rome. Nevertheless, the coincidence of two namesakes — both from Rome and both specialists in the history of the Scottish Rite — seems highly unlikely. Moreover, the news section of the Grand Orient of Italy’s website repeatedly mentions Umberto Longo as a regular guest at their conferences.
Yeah, there could be two in a city as big a Rome. Yeah, that's the ticket.
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