[garbageseeker]

Do you know that belonging to a Masonic lodge is forbidden? If you have not obtained permission from your bishop to belong to the Masons, you are in material sin. How can you accuse the bishops of doing something wrong when you are wrong in belonging to the Masons?

Actually, many nuns and priests know that am a Mason. And they do not care. Belong to the Masonic lodge is the greatest honor to bestow on a man. Many great Americans have belonged to the order.

[Candor7]

I also am a Mason. The fact that the Masonic secrets are to be withheld from the confessional is the real reason why the chuirch bans its congregation from being Masons. There aren't enough Roman Catolics in the World who coud act togethre to derrogate from my constitutional right of freedom of association with my brother free masons.

If you are a Roman Catholic and a Freemason, I salute and commend you and your sense of fraterity. The Church cannot stand fraternal organizations, ending the Prder of the Knoghts Templar hundreds of years ago ( Pope Clemement) and the Templars sought refuge with the Scottish Order of Free Mason. We have been at odds with the Roman Catholic Church ever since, and are proud of that fact.

If you are a Roman Catholic, you are not free, unless you undertsand and follow the self evident truth that all men crave freedom, one which is ignored by the Roman Catholic church.

I commend you for being a truly free Roman Catholic, and for having a lot more sense than many bleating sheep on this list who can only follow rather than to think for themselves, and who wrongly castigate you for it.