[blackie]

"We Catholics were not alone in burning folks at the stake."

Ah yes ~ the old "everybody else does it too," so it must be alright. >;-}>;-}

[BlackElk]

Blackie, you are putting words on my keyboard. Whatever I may have thought about burnings at the stake as being "all right" or otherwise I have not posted here. In any event, it would not be "all right" just because Massachusetts Bay Puritans did it too.

We American Catholics are living in a nation that is essentially Masonic in its roots. There have been some periods of persecution of Catholics in American history but we have little reason to complain. For most of us, we were not dragged here in chains nor were our ancestors. On balance, the concededly Masonic United States has been very good to us and to everyone else of good will.

Perhaps you missed my previous post in which I said that, if the Masonic Order is in decline in the US, that is not good news for my country. Also, lest I forget, John F. Kennedy's membership in the Knights of Columbus made him neither a good knight, nor a good Catholic nor a good president. OTOH, the US was, despite dire predictions, under no danger that JFK would have been taking orders from the pope (and a very liberal Pope John XXIII at that!)