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- For nearly three hundred years, the Catholic Church has held an openly hostile view towards Freemasonry. Many Popes and Cardinals have banned, persecuted, and railed against Freemasonry, with a series of official decrees from the Vatican condemning the Craft.
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The Catholic Church has difficulty with freemasonry because it is indeed a kind of religion unto itself. The practice of freemasonry includes temples, altars, a moral code, worship services, vestments, feast days, a hierarchy of leadership, initiation and burial rites, and promises of eternal reward and punishment.
Although there was some confusion about membership following the 1962-1965 Second Vatican Council (Vatican II), the Church continues to prohibit membership in Freemasonry because it believes that Masonic principles and rituals are irreconcilable with Catholic doctrines.
For nearly three hundred years, the Catholic Church has held an openly hostile view towards Freemasonry. Many Popes and Cardinals have banned, persecuted, and railed against Freemasonry, with a series of official decrees from the Vatican condemning the Craft.
Nov 17, 2023 · The encyclical detailed why Freemasonry is irreconcilable with Catholicism and accused the Freemasons of “planning the destruction of the holy Church publicly and openly” and holding to...
- Tyler Arnold
The Catholic Church has difficulties with Freemasonry because it is indeed a kind of religion unto itself. The practice of Freemasonry includes temples, altars, a moral code, worship services, vestments, feast days, a hierarchy of leadership, initiation and burial rites, and promises of eternal reward and punishment.
Beginning in 1738 with Clement XII's encyclical <In Eminenti> (just twenty-one years after the establishment of the Grand Lodge of England, the event usually recognized as the commencement of the modern Masonic movement) and running through ten successive pontificates, the Church's case against Freemasonry finds its culminating statement in 1884...
