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I would submit to you that John J. Robinson was an exceptional scholar. Before you fly off on a "I hate Masons because they are a Satanic Cult" schtick, I think you need to know that Mr. Robinson was not associated with Free Masonry when he researched and wrote this book.

A charge was made that the Church went around kidnapping and murdering the wives of Bishops to enforce clerical celibacy. The source for this comment is a book on the Masons. If the charge is true surely there must be another (and vaguely credible) source?

"You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free."

Yes it will. (And the truth isn't hidden by conspiracies or known only to secret societies.)

[Redleg Duke]

I have read the book in question a couple of times and nowhere have I seen any reference to kidnapping of wives of clergy.