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To: Loyalist; Polycarp
The Mafia IS Masonry. They are working together hand in hand.
8 posted on 07/26/2003 1:08:29 AM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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To: Hermann the Cherusker
Got your asbestos undies on?

"international freemasonry"

I haven't seen those two words together in years...

Most people only think of this group as a local (regional at most), fraternal bunch of good 'ol guys serving their communities...

9 posted on 07/26/2003 2:08:44 PM PDT by Possenti
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To: Hermann the Cherusker
The Mafia IS Masonry. They are working together hand in hand.

"Wherefore we see that men are publicly tempted by the many allurements of pleasure; that there are journals and pamphlets with neither moderation nor shame; that stage-plays are remarkable for license; that designs for works of art are shamelessly sought in the laws of a so-called realism; that the contrivances of a soft and delicate life are most carefully devised; and that all the blandishments of pleasure are diligently sought out by which virtue may be lulled to sleep. Wickedly, also, but at the same time quite consistently, do those act who do away with the expectation of the joys of heaven, and bring down all happiness to the level of mortality, and, as it were, sink it in the earth. Of what We have said the following fact, astonishing not so much in itself as in its open expression, may serve as a confirmation. For, since generally no one is accustomed to obey crafty and clever men so submissively as those whose soul is weakened and broken down by the domination of the passions, there have been in the sect of the Freemasons some who have plainly determined and proposed that, artfully and of set purpose, the multitude should be satiated with a boundless license of vice, as, when this had been done, it would easily come under their power and authority for any acts of daring..."

"...With the greatest unanimity the sect of the Freemasons also endeavors to take to itself the education of youth. They think that they can easily mold to their opinions that soft and pliant age, and bend it whither they will; and that nothing can be more fitted than this to enable them to bring up the youth of the State after their own plan. Therefore, in the education and instruction of children they allow no share, either of teaching or of discipline, to the ministers of the Church; and in many places they have procured that the education of youth shall he exclusively in the hands of laymen, and that nothing which treats of the most important and most holy duties of men to God shall be introduced into the instructions on morals."

-- Pope Leo XIII
Humanum Genus - Encyclical on Freemasonry - Promulgated on April 20, 1884

10 posted on 07/26/2003 2:28:59 PM PDT by Polycarp (How can you say there are too many children, it is like saying there are too many flowers-MthrTeresa)
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