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"My children, and I ask My pastors to listen to Me as your Mother, as I tell you that you must take yourselves from all secret societies. They do not openly plot against My Son's Church, but they do this in secret! The Masons, My children--the Hierarchy must remove themselves from this abominable organization. You cannot deny that many in the Masons are practicing witchcraft and sorcery." - Our Lady of the Roses, June 1, 1978

Cassock and compass: the relationship between Christianity and Freemasonry is an authentically “ecumenical” knot. It is not only the Catholic Church, in fact, that has secular difficulties with the “freemasons,” but also other Christian denominations. In 2003, Archbishop of Canterbury and primate of England, Rowan Williams (who had recently been made spiritual head of the Anglicans) was forced to apologize to 330,000 Freemasons in the United Kingdom for saying that their beliefs were incompatible with Christianity and for saying that he himself had excluded them from positions of responsibility in his diocese. The outcry from British Freemasonry was such that primate Rowan Williams wrote to Robert Morrow, the Grand Secretary of the United Grand Lodge of England, in an attempt to put out the fire of controversy unleashed from his statement about the incompatibility of Freemasonry and Christianity.

In his message, the Archbishop of Canterbury apologized for the “distress” he caused with his words and revealed that his father “was a member of the Craft.” The freemasons, many of whom are active members of the Church of England, have reacted animatedly to the fact that the primate acknowledged having doubts, fears, and prejudices about the compatibility between Freemasonry and Christianity. They protested his admission that, as Bishop of Monmouth, he had blocked the promotion of masons to important posts. His critical statements on Freemasonry were contained in a private letter partially revealed by the UK mass media as Downing Street confirmed the appointment of Rowan Williams as head of the Church of England. His colleagues’ subsequent attempts to calm the clamor only caused further controversy. In fact, a spokesman confirmed that the Archbishop of Canterbury was worried about the ritual component of Freemasonry, which was seen as “satanically inspired.”

In the Catholic Church, it is uncommon for a bishop to speak publicly about Freemasonry. Even more surprising is that the person to have done it is someone with an eye toward the ecclesiastical hierarchy like Monsignor Luigi Negri, Bishop of Marino-Montefeltro and President of the John Paul II Foundation for the Social Teachings of the Church. In November 2007, the Communion and Liberation (CL) bishop - a very close collaborator with Father Luigi Giussani - found the occasion to speak out in a history book on the Risorgimento by Angela Pellicciari, entitled The Popes and Freemasonry (Edizioni Ares, 2007, 320 pp.). In the preface to the essay, Bishop Negri says he is happy to introduce “this meaningful and relevant effort” by Angela Pellicciari, calling the book “an extremely intelligent and well-documented re-reading of the Papal teachings over the last centuries on the extremely long-standing and current topic of Freemasonry and its disruptive effect on the Church and Christianity.” At its base, emphasizes the CL bishop, there are actions that all the Pontiffs over the last two and half centuries have taken, “constantly keeping pace with the growth of the Masonic project in the life of culture and society, and attempts to hegemonically participate in the great secular revolutions, starting with the French Revolution and concluding, it is now clear enough, with the Russian Revolution of 1917.”

What Monsignor Negri makes clear in this abundant teaching is the depth of the study that the Popes did on the Masonic story and its ultimate foundations: anthropological, metaphysical, cultural, ethical. It is a study that followed, step by step, the evolution of Freemasonry, to the foundations of its assumptions, many times predicting the results, in society and in relationship with the Church, that were then in fact realized. “With perfect consistency, and according to the logic of continuity (which Pope Benedict XVI calls the hermeneutics of continuity, it is clear that the Church has not ceded, not even a moment, to any temptation to accord or peace-making,” emphasizes Monsignor Negri. “Freemasonry is an enemy of the Church; born with this enmity and pursuing the realization of this enmity with the destruction of the Church and Christian Civilization and its replacement with a culture and a society that is substantially atheistic, even when referring to the architecture of the universe.”

In the judgment of Monsignor Negri, there is no question that this is a reference to values designed and conceived within arationalistic Enlightenment mentality. To deal with the still-tangled knot of the more or less hidden relations between the ecclesiastical hierarchy and the Freemasons, we must go back to the relationship between the Church and modernity. “It is not the Church that is anti-modern, but modernity that is anti-Church,” says Bishop Negri. “Modernity is anti-Church, and the maximum point of attack on the clergy is really represented by a Freemasonry that - as a component secretly connoted and dynamically launched into the creation of an civilization alternative to that created by faith - represents, to my way of thinking, a radical element of modernity.”

In Freemasonry, in fact, modernity is expressed with maximum clarity and identity and, according to the bishop, also garners the maximum cultural and social impact. The issue of relations between the Church and Freemasonry should be contextualized, therefore, in the great story of the Church in relation to the modern secular, contemporary project. “Basically, it is a very unique counterpoint to the social doctrine of the Church, in the sense that this teaching against Freemasonry, in some ways, is already an indicator of the fundamental issues that the social Doctrine of the Church will then face and deploy along all the articulations that the secular project will assume, during the modern, contemporary phase,” Negri points out. According to this, Freemasonry has certainly found its strength in secrecy, in the ability to identify and assimilate the leadership of men who are unconditionally obedient to its directives, as well as its ability to influence ever-wider strata of the culture and leadership of civic and institutional life. That is, Freemasonry has strategically represented a point of attack, on the principles and on the mentality of those who, in the abstract, should have stood as a bulwark of these traditional principles, but instead have become fully instrumental in the erosion of tradition and revolution against it. “This is also an intuition that the Papal teachings maintained on Freemasonry,” says Negri, “The Popes were agreed in indicating, even from different perspectives, that Freemasonry was conquering, slowly but inexorably, even those who had the duty to defend all the richness, the truth, and the beauty of the traditional position.”

Furthermore, “not only has Freemasonry conquered the revolutionary avant-garde in Europe and in the world but, above all, it has strongly conditioned the regimes that, arising from these masonic-liberal revolutions, would result in the greattotalitarian systems.” The CL bishop gives voice to the belief, strongly rooted in the ecclesiastical hierarchy, of a greater “identity-orientation” – certainly a very serious and disturbing presence, now widely documented - of many freemasons with positions of responsibility in the great totalitarian systems. In the crosshairs of Monsignor Negri and of the traditionalist wing of the international episcopate, is “a popular doctrine that has been artfully spread, including by certain ecclesiastical personalities, about a change in the position of the Church with regard to Freemasonry,” and those who even maintain that a collaboration between the Church and Freemasonry would be desirable since, fundamentally, they both work in the fields of charity and solidarity initiatives which are, obviously, pursued with different associations but join into a single project: the well-being of humanity. Says Monsignor Negri: “I happened to hear, in person, similar statements come from the mouth of a very high representative of the Italian church, but such claims have no foundation. No one who wants to seriously deal with the Church-Freemasonry issue can stay at this superficial level that, if it is intolerable for everyone, is even more intolerable for representatives of the ecclesiastical community.”

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"The faithful who enroll in Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion...Consequently, neither the excommunication nor the other penalties envisaged have been abrogated." - Cardinal Ratzinger, Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, November 26, 1983

"In the past We have counseled through prophets, your Popes, to forbid all who have joined in My Son's Church, forbid them to become part of freemasonry and the Masons. And why? Because, My children, they are not of God, and if they are not of God, they are the Antichrist. And why are they the Antichrist? Because they worship false idols! 
    "In the commandments of Your God you will remember: 'I,' said the Lord, 'I am your God; thou shalt not have strange gods before you.' And who are these strange gods of masonry and witchcraft? Isis! 
    "My children, man has accepted gods of nature! Pagans you have become! You reject your God the Father; you reject the Trinity; and you have dabbled and burned your fingers in the unknown, the darkness of satanism." - Our Lady of the Roses, November 1, 1977

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Freemasonry is not of God
"My children, recognize the faces of evil now loosed in the world. I bring you a sad lesson in knowledge. In the past We have counseled through prophets, your Popes, to forbid all who have joined in My Son's Church, forbid them to become part of freemasonry and the Masons. And why? Because, My children, they are not of God, and if they are not of God, they are the Antichrist. And why are they the Antichrist? Because they worship false idols!" - Our Lady, November 1, 1977

A major law
"Speak, My child; speak now, as I have directed you. There is a major law in the Faith of Jesus Christ that non shall enter into secret societies of the Masons. The sons of satan* are rulers, known by the name of Freemasons." - St. Michael, August 21, 1974

* "Indeed each of you knows well the nature, zeal and intention of sects, whether called Masonic or some other name.... [You] cannot doubt but that the present calamity must be attributed to their deceits and machinations for the most part. For from these the synagogue of satan is formed which draws up its forces, advances its standards, and joins battle against the Church of Christ." - Pope Pius IX, Etsi Multa, November 21, 1873

Freemasonry - Synagogue of Satan
"Do not be misguided, O leaders of My Son's House, Church; do not accept the fallacy that masonry is condoned by your God! It is for reason that all of your pastors have condemned freemasonry as a synagogue of satan. Do not fall into the error and the deceit of those who claim brotherhood and goodness, for what god do they recognize in their naturalism? It is not God the Father in Heaven; it is not My Son. It is a deity that will bring destruction to anyone who enters into such a secret society.
     "My child, I have given to you, in your possession, a book. Guard it well, so that it will not be taken from you. You understand, My child, the very first page read - and this is a secret society that many of your pastors condone - the very first page reads; 'And Mozart, who was a Roman Catholic, when he weighed the credits of Catholicism and freemasonry, he found that freemasonry was far about Catholicism.' My child and My children, is that the writing that is constructive for your Faith? Is this not an undermining of My Son's Church? 1968 this book was printed, and given into the hands of all members of the lodge." - Our Lady, November 1, 1976

Catholicism: only true religion
"O My children, I will not go into a long discourse now with you about charity and love for your neighbor, but you must understand: you cannot judge your neighbor. You must pray for them. However, you cannot become weak and permissive. You must stand forth as bearers of the light, carriers of the truth. You have been given by your baptism entrance into the only true religion upon earth, the Roman Catholic Church under My Son, Jesus. Though man in his arrogance and pride has forgotten His role and His rule, you must carry it forward. Retain the Faith and the truth in the hearts of mankind." - Our Lady, September 7, 1978

What's wrong with the Masons?
https://www.tldm.org/news6/masons1.htm

The pastoral problem of Masonic membership
http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=1368

Declaration on Masonic associations, Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, November 26, 1983
http://www.ewtn.com/library/CURIA/CDFMASN2.HTM

Readers respond to Freemason, Matt C. Abbott, September 4, 2006
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/abbott/060904

Catholicism vs. Freemasonry: Irreconcilable forever
http://www.ewtn.com/library/ANSWERS/BACAFM.HTM

Catholics and Freemasonry religion
http://www.ewtn.com/library/ANSWERS/WHATMAS.HTM

Catholic Encyclopedia, "Masonry" (Freemasonry)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09771a.htm