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To: sinkspur; murphE; Gerard.P
"Catholics are discouraged from belonging to the Masons due to their anti-Catholic stance. Being a member is problematic, and could be sinful."

No Catholic is permitted to be a member of Freemasonry, ever. Nothing has changed. It's not that it is discouraged; it's disallowed.

From a letter of Pope Leo XIII on December 8, 1892 to the Italian people:

"Let us remember that Christianity and Freemasonry are essentially incompatible, to such an extent, that to become united with one means being divorced from the other. Let us, therefore, expose Freemasonry as the enemy of God, of the Church and of our Motherland."

Leo XIII's 13th of October 13, 1884 vision of the future of the Church occurred exactly 33 years prior, to the day, to the miracle of the sun at Fatima.

166 posted on 03/16/2005 1:57:06 PM PST by pascendi (Quicumque vult salvus esse, ante omnia opus est, ut teneat catholicam fidem)
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To: pascendi
No Catholic is permitted to be a member of Freemasonry, ever. Nothing has changed. It's not that it is discouraged; it's disallowed.

Some bishops have allowed membership in the Masons. In those cases, the Catholics who join because their bishops approve, the bishop is at fault, not the Catholic who sought out the opinion of his bishop.

167 posted on 03/16/2005 2:35:50 PM PST by sinkspur ("Preach the gospel. If necessary, use words.")
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