[sitetest]

Dear Coleus,

I'm unfamiliar with the rituals of masons. However, even giving you that the rituals are at a wake, rather than gravesite, that doesn't make Fr. Smith's statement that likely this DID NOT happen during a Catholic funeral Mass any less true.

I think that the complaints you have about Fr. Smith's Q&A have more to do with the person who posed the question, not Fr. Smith's answers. He didn't say that there are bishops who are masons, or any of that. In fact, Fr. Smith points out that a bishop or priest who became a mason would be subject to ecclesiastical penalties.

Fr. Smith's answer is, in the main, truthful, accurate, and not making any allegations at all, really, false or otherwise.

If you wish to complain about the question, or the questioner, remember that it's the job of someone like Fr. Smith to take questions that may have false premises, and to correct those false premises. Fr. Smith seems to have done a good job of that.


sitetest

[Coleus]

Yep, I understand.

It was Catholic Guy who stated in a previous post that "the card" was honored by the masons. For once, I would like to see some evidence of some of these accusations of priests and bishops being masons and that Popes and Cardinals defiled St. Peter's by having Masonic rituals conducted in it which I've seen written elsewhere. See, here is a site which prints it's evidence to back up claims.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/archive.shtml
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/blakedeath1.html

Now let me see something with a name of a lodge linking a bishop or priest or a picture or something. I guess we can start with a picture of Bernadin accepting his masonic award or a pic of the award hanging in his office, or a picture of the lettering on the award, something.