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The Church and Freemasonry: the Secret February 16 Meeting in Milan -- by Roberto de Mattei
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| February 22, 2024
| Roberto de Mattei
Posted on 02/22/2024 7:53:40 AM PST by ebb tide
The Church and Freemasonry: the Secret February 16 Meeting in Milan -- by Roberto de Mattei
On Feb. 16, 2024, representatives of the main Italian Masonic lodges and a number of influential Catholic prelates gathered in Milan for a day of study. The seminar, sponsored at the Ambrosianum Foundation by the Gris (Group for Socio-Religious Research and Information), was attended by the three Grand Masters of Italian Freemasonry: Stefano Bisi for the Grand Orient of Italy (GOI), Luciano Romoli for the Grand Lodge of Italy of the ALAMs (GLDI, and Fabio Venzi (in connection) for the Grand Regular Lodge of Italy (GLRI). On the Catholic side, Archbishop Mario Delpini of Milan, Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, former president of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, Franciscan theologian Father Zbigniew Suchecki, and Bishop Antonio Staglianò, president of the Pontifical Academy of Theology, participated in the meeting. Archbishop Delpini gave the opening address and Cardinal Coccopalmerio the closing one. The meeting was behind closed doors, but the relevance of the participants leaked its contents, which Riccardo Cascioli first brought to light in The New Daily Compass on Feb. 19.
On Feb. 20, the website of the Grand Orient of Italy in turn carried the full report of Grand Master Bisi, who has led Italy's leading Masonic organization for ten years. "In the course of its more than 300 years of existence, no institution has been opposed, fought, misrepresented, besmirched, and so much feared as Universal Freemasonry," Bisi said, criticizing for this the Catholic Church, "which has seen Freemasonry as a potential competitor in the spiritualization and elevation of Man," but forgetting to say that it was precisely Freemasonry that has opposed, fought, misrepresented, and besmirched the Church over the past three centuries.
"Why is the Masonic lodge beautiful and why don't church authorities like it?" explained Bisi: "Because under the same sky -- which represents Creation -- each man is a brother to the other, the bond of brotherhood is independent of faith. It is only necessary to believe in the Great Architect of the Universe. The starry sky is the same for the Buddhist, for the Catholic, for the Waldensian, for the Islamic, for all those who believe in a supreme being. (...) Absolute truths and walls of the mind do not belong to us and for us they must be torn down." For Bisi, who had the effrontery to ask the Pope to gather around the monument of the heretic and apostate Giordano Bruno, among the truths that must be torn down is, of course, the Catholic faith, which presents itself as absolute and universal. Bisi's wish that it be "declared that membership in a Masonic lodge is reconcilable with membership in the Catholic faith," is nothing more than a request to the Church to turn its back on its doctrine and join the Masonic, Gnostic and relativist Pantheon. And the fact that the Grand Master recalled the names of Cardinal Ravasi and Cardinal Martini as patrons confirms this impression.
Bisi recalled that Cardinal Martini "was at home" in Masonic circles and praised Cardinal Ravasi's well-known article "Dear Brother Masons" published in Il Sole24Ore on Feb. 14, 2016. Their pioneering work seems to want to be carried on by Cardinal Coccopalmerio who, in the Milan seminar, said, among other things, "Fifty years ago there was less knowledge but things have moved on and I hope that these meetings do not stop here. I wonder if we cannot think of a permanent panel, even at the level of authorities, to discuss things better."
Archbishop Staglianò for his part criticized the Nov. 13, 2023 document of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, signed by Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández and approved ex audientia, by Pope Francis, according to which it is forbidden for Catholics to join Masonic lodges, "because of the irreconcilability between Catholic doctrine and Freemasonry." This document confirms the Church's centuries-old condemnation, which apparently was only recalled during the seminar by Father Zbigniew Suchecki. But we will have to wait for the publication of all the speeches to be able to make an accurate judgment on the proceedings.
What is certain is that, according to the Grand Lodge of Italy of the ALAM (Ancient Free and Accepted Masons), the meeting "culminated in a unanimous consensus on the advisability of establishing a permanent discussion panel."
It is worth mentioning at this point that relativism constitutes the soul of Freemasonry, although it does not encapsulate its entire essence. Freemasonry, in fact, presumes to be a "universal religion," the repository of a secret of which the Freemason gradually becomes aware through the rites, symbols, and texts he assimilates, but also through the atmosphere he breathes in the lodges in which he is placed.
It should be added that there is no such thing as a "bad," atheistic, and anticlerical Freemasonry, and a "good" "religious" and "spiritualist" Freemasonry, as one often hears people repeat, distinguishing between the Latin (left-wing) and the Anglo-American (right-wing) Freemasonry. In reality, in all lodges, the first degrees are overlaid with Masonic High Degree systems called "Rites," which are characterized by magical and "Kabbalistic" content. Not all affiliates of Freemasonry know its ultimate ends, learned only from the initiated to the highest degrees, who swear, under penalty of death, not to reveal them, but behind the different rites and obediences, there is the same worldview, diametrically opposed to that of the Catholic Church. Jean-Claude Lozac'hmeur's studies on the occult origins of Freemasonry show that it inherits faith and customs from Gnosticism (Fils de la veuve: essai sur le symbolisme maçonnique, Éditions Sainte Jeanne d'Arc, Chiré 1990), and Father Paolo Siano has devoted in-depth studies to Masonic Luciferism, refuting the thesis of those who believe that it is cultivated only by "fringe," i.e., marginal, Freemasonry, but is alien to regular Freemasonry (Studi vari sulla Libera Muratoria, Casa Mariana Editrice, Frigento 2012).
The danger is to divert attention away from Freemasonry in order to pursue forms of neo-complottery, which denounce the action of "plutocratic elites," and "Cabals" of different kinds, forgetting the presence of what Leo XIII, in his encyclical Custodi di quella fede of December 8, 1892, calls "a sect which after nineteen centuries of Christian civilization strives to bring down the Catholic Church." If Freemasonry no longer poses a threat, even meetings like the one in Milan find their own reason to take place.
TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; Current Events; Theology
KEYWORDS: antoniostagliano; coccopalmerio; fabiovenzi; frankenchurch; freemasonry; freemasons; heretics; lucianoromoli; mariodelpini; newage; satanism; stefanobisi; zbigniewsuchecki
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To: Jumper
I can only say that if you visit a lodge, they will not let you into the meeting in most instances... you will allowed to sit outside in the kitchen area.I would never step foot in such a den of iniquity.
To: Jamestown1630
That’s your problem:
You don’t understand freemasonry.
To: Jumper
England wrote a law that forced this upon the organization.Please provide a source link to back up your claim.
Otherwise, you're just blowing smoke, in my opinion.
To: Jumper
“ The restoration of Japan is due to the Mason’s.”
That’s preposterous .
Why are you attracted to a secret society ?
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posted on
02/22/2024 7:07:22 PM PST
by
HereInTheHeartland
(Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
To: ebb tide
It’s really extraordinary that you would dwell on this, when you are so devoted to a church that has been rife with homosexuality and child abuse for decades - if not much longer.
I recognize that human organizations are made up of good AND bad people; but you ignore the great failings of your own church, even to denying the history of the persecutions of innocents it has pursued.
One wonders...
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posted on
02/22/2024 7:09:35 PM PST
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: Jamestown1630
I was expecting you to finally resort to an attack on the Catholic Church.
How Masonic of you!
To: HereInTheHeartland
Every single chairman of a Japanese major group was inducted in the Tokyo Mason’s. Thru this social gathering MacArther codified his direct for all of Japan. I had the pleasure of sitting meeting the Chairman of Sony, and several other Mega Corporations while in Tokyo. I would go on to state that the most beautiful two lodges in the world sit side by side in the bottom of Tokyo building. The Japanese flew in the finest chief’s from France simple for a dinner. Now in Japan only those few men were ever allowed to join a Masonic Lodge in Japan. They ran everything since September 1945. In every other country in the world there is open membership. Not so in Japan.
In 1994 at Camp Zama, the living member of MacArther’s staff was still alive and he was quite a historical dude. He would bring in binders of photo’s from the War and after the War. He also spoke of the Japan Corporation leaders on a first name basis and was married into one of their families. Funny thing was that he took a GS3 position just be allowed to come to work with Americans. He retired as an E8 from the Army sometime in the 50’s.
I would say that MacArthur’s Japanese Mason’s rebuilt Japan since they ran everything in the country. Of course you are free to believe it or not.
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posted on
02/22/2024 7:37:40 PM PST
by
Jumper
To: ebb tide
My goodness, what a hypocrite. You’ve been attacking the Freemasons all day.
How Christian of you!
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posted on
02/22/2024 7:57:24 PM PST
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Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: Jamestown1630
You’re the one claiming Freemasonry is neither a religion nor a church.
My how you’ve changed your tune!
Who’s the hypocrite?
Would you have a problem if I attack the Satanists all day tomorrow?
Or the Demoncrats? Or Muslims?
To: Jumper
The Japanese flew in the finest chief’s from France simple for a dinner.
To: ebb tide
It is right there in your link. You probably didn’t even read the article and if you did, your inability to read and comprehend what you read is astonishing.
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posted on
02/23/2024 4:57:11 AM PST
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Jumper
To: Jumper
It's not Engand's law they are conforming to.
It's the United Grand Lodge of England's law:
Gender Reassignment Policy
And it passed six years ago, in 2018.
To: ebb tide
The first lie of the Lodge:
“We’re not a religion.”
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posted on
02/24/2024 7:00:56 PM PST
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: Jamestown1630; ebb tide
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02/24/2024 7:06:44 PM PST
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fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: fishtank
That doesn’t look like my speed; but thanks for the recommendation.
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02/24/2024 8:04:16 PM PST
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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