Posted on 01/27/2006 9:41:55 PM PST by Coleus
DECLARATION ON MASONIC ASSOCIATIONS
It has been asked whether there has been any change in the Church’s decision in regard to Masonic associations since the new Code of Canon Law does not mention them expressly, unlike the previous Code.
This Sacred Congregation is in a position to reply that this circumstance in due to an editorial criterion which was followed also in the case of other associations likewise unmentioned inasmuch as they are contained in wider categories.
Therefore the Church’s negative judgment in regard to Masonic association remains unchanged since their principles have always been considered irreconcilable with the doctrine of the Church and therefore membership in them remains forbidden. The faithful who enrol in Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion.
It is not within the competence of local ecclesiastical authorities to give a judgment on the nature of Masonic associations which would imply a derogation from what has been decided above, and this in line with the Declaration of this Sacred Congregation issued on 17 February 1981 (cf. AAS 73 1981 pp. 240-241; English language edition of L’Osservatore Romano, 9 March 1981).
In an audience granted to the undersigned Cardinal Prefect, the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II approved and ordered the publication of this Declaration which had been decided in an ordinary meeting of this Sacred Congregation.
Rome, from the Office of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 26 November 1983.
Joseph Card. RATZINGER Prefect
+ Fr. Jerome Hamer, O.P. Titular Archbishop of Lorium Secretary
bumpus ad summum
He was named "Johann Chrysostom" because 27 January is the feast day of St. John Chrysostom on the old Roman sanctoral calendar.
Sancte Joannes Chrysostomus, ora pro nobis!
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I was always told that Catholics could join the1st Degree masons....ONLY. They could never go higher, because it takes on a religiousity....my grandfather (mother's side) was a Lodge Grand Master and my Father was 4th Degree Knights of Columbus!! And I am married to a Jew...ecumenicalism to the nth!
are reporters good in math?
My very Catholic father told his priest that my Jewish husband was a better Catholic than most of his own children.....:)
Salzburg is doing a HUGE 350 year celebration this year.....they MUST know something you don't!!
DNA from matter extracted from two teeth did not match samples from the remains of other descendants of Mozart's father, Leopold.
No remains or resting places of his mother or other of her descendants have ever been discovered.
The U.S. Army's DNA testing lab in Maryland conducted the tests.
Mozart's most popular and enduring operas:
The Marriage of Figaro (1786)
Don Giovanni (1787)
Cosi fan Tutte (1790)
The Magic Flute (1791, uncompleted at his death, age 35)
Leni
It is still the feast of the translation of his relics in Orthodoxy.
Leni, I believe "Die Zauberflote" was completed; however, his "Requiem" was finished by one of his students, Sussmayer, I think his name was.....
My source was www.bohemianopera.com/mozart.htm. I quote: " 'The Magic Flute', the apotheosis of singspiel, was an immediate success that has remained enduringly popular. The work, uncompleted at Mozart'z death, proved to be his last musical effort."
Well, I don't claim to be that much of an opera expert, but new things come up every day in the music world. I never even knew till yesterday that Mozart's skull has been on display in his native city for over a century and that DNA tests were performed on it recently.
So you are correct of course, it was the Requiem, and thanks for catching the error.
By the way, "The Magic Flute" was on last Saturday's live Metropolitan Opera radio broadcast. I managed to listen to it in full although I'm not a fan of the operas of Mozart's era.....at all.
However, so many of Mozart's shorter compositions and melodies found in his operas and other works are so brilliant, so intricate, and many so charming, that one becomes enchanted with him as a composer.
Leni
More that he wrote great music.
Appropriate timing! For what it's worth, isn't Wolfgang
Mozart Pope Benedict's favorite composer? I can just see the Holy Father tinkling the ivories at night, playing some Mozart opus, with a cat sitting in rapture on the papal piano. It's a nice thought.
Nope. Can't be Masons at all, mainly because Masonry represents a naturalistic quasi-religion.
Masonry in Europe and Latin America has a much less benign history than that of Masonry in America.
An excellent account of the horrors of Mexican Masonry here, including American complicity in Masonic atrocities.
Freerepublic is probably the last source you want to get information about Freemasonry.
Silvio Berlusconi (prime minister of Italy) is a Roman Catholic, a known freemason (in fact there was a big stink about him being one, as it's a no-no for politicians in Italy), and routinely gets communion from the Pope, if that tells you something about the issue.
And to clear something up --- FM is not a religion or an "natualistic" whatever.
That's just hogwash repeated by idiots who believe Jews and Freemasons control the world.
That said, it does require one to believe in the God of Abraham and that the Bible is the Word of God, which a mason must swear to take as his rule and guide for his life.
Terrible things that. LOL.
The RCC and masons got (and the nut factor within the RCC remain) crossways because the masons used to be a trade union of masons and got into huge financial fights with their big customer --- the RCC. It's no big mystery.
A pope way-back-when decided to union bust and make the joining of the union illegal.
Regardless, as a result of the decree, the masons became primarily protestant and Jewish, which really aliented the RCC further.
That said, the organization is about charitable works and giving (Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, Shriner's Burn Centers, etc) and if people think that is a bad thing, well, then they are idiots.
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