The Pope Bans People Of Catholic Faith From Becoming A Free Mason
"Active membership in Freemasonry by a member of the faithful is prohibited, because of the irreconcilability between Catholic doctrine and Freemasonry,"
November 15, 20237:16 PM CST
VATICAN CITY, Nov 15 (Reuters) - The Vatican has confirmed a ban on Catholics becoming Freemasons, a centuries-old secretive society that the Catholic Church has long viewed with hostility and has an estimated global membership of up to six million.
"Active membership in Freemasonry by a member of the faithful is prohibited, because of the irreconcilability between Catholic doctrine and Freemasonry," the Vatican's doctrinal office said in a letter published by Vatican media on Wednesday.
The department, known as the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith, issued its opinion, dated Nov. 13 and countersigned by Pope Francis, in response to a bishop from the Philippines alarmed by the growing number of Freemasons in his country.
The same office said last week that transgender people can be baptized, serve as godparents and act as witnesses at Catholic weddings.
The letter on Freemasons cited a 1983 declaration, signed by the late Pope Benedict XVI, at the time the Vatican's doctrine chief, stating that Catholics "in Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion".
Masonic lodges are normally male-only societies, associated with arcane symbols and rituals. They have also sometimes been linked to conspiracy theories alleging undue influence on world affairs.
According to the United Grand Lodge of England, modern Freemasonry "is one of the oldest social and charitable organisations in the world", rooted in the traditions of medieval stonemasons.
The group says it has 180,000 male members, with two parallel female lodges in England having another 5,000 members, and estimates global Freemasonry membership at around six million.
It lists the late Queen Elizabeth's husband Prince Philip, former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, late actor Peter Sellers, former England soccer manager Alf Ramsey and authors Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle as famous Freemasons from the past.
Reporting by Alvise Armellini, editing by Nick Macfie
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This Mussolini Wanna-Be is a heretical, Apostate Freemason out of Argentina openly worshiping a Fertility Demon, Pachamama, out of the South America once requiring 'human sacrifice' as the Demonic most often does. Is NOT any kind of Pope; is an Anti-Pope installing homosexual/Pedophilic Satanic Luciferians and those openly supporting them into the highest echelons of the Vatican. NO FAITHFUL CATHOLIC LISTENS TO THIS NUMB SKULL ANY LONGER...He's the Pope for the Satanic/Luciferians of The City of London, Crown Corporation, the treasonous U.S. Coastal Wealthy and CCP.
Christians believe what Jesus says: The way to God the father is through him only. Exclusively. All other gods are his footstools. Good works will not get you to Heaven lest ye boast. The one God has an only begotten Son named Jesus. Unbelievers don't believe this. All gods are not the same as Mason's profess in secrecy . Don't get me started on Hiram.