NONsense... i'm Catholic and a PastMaster
I don't see how masons can be excommunicated before child molesters anyway. Read this...Does this mean one can be a mason as long as they aren't plotting against the Church?
In view of these several reasons Catholics since 1738 are, under penalty of excommunication, incurred ipso facto, and reserved to the pope, strictly forbidden to enter or promote in any way Masonic societies. The law now in force [214] pronounces excommunication upon "those who enter Masonic or Carbonarian or other sects of the same kind, which, openly or secretly, plot against the Church or lawful authority and those who in any way favour these sects or do not denounce their leaders and principal members."