Freemasonry And Catholicism

Blogs are dialogues and we need to be open to others, not listening only for the purpose of a reply. Thank you, Phil, for your kind support. I was Catholic for 60 years. Technically, I still am counted as one.

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I just have my sincere doubts about the existence of anything supernatural. There has to be something supernatural that created the world. Big bangs create chaos. I will agree with you that there has to be something behind all this. The supernatural that I doubt is gods, angels, demons, miracles, souls, afterlife, etc. There is a plethora of near death experience stories out there, Bill, that say that you are wrong.

Howard Storm, an atheist, became a preacher after seeing the other side.. The brain can do amazing things and there can be all kinds of illusions that seem real. Blind people who died in the ER can come back and describe everything in the ER. People who have undergone NDEs can describe conversations going on in the next room. It does beg the question as to why these people would make these stories up.

But I think many of the stories are fabricated. That still leaves some that are true. I have no explanation for how these things happen naturally. I watched the videos. There are only two possibilities. Howard Storm is delusional or he is a fraud.

There is nothing he has to say that is of any value to anyone. By the way, Mr. Oh boy, please do not conflate issues. Human behavioral normalcy is a result of anthropology, paleontology, carbon-dating, geology, etc. It is that time when man achieved the behavioral characteristics of modern man…. Catholics and other Christians believe in the incarnation of God in Jesus, other faiths …. You are missing those raised Catholic who grow up believing its teachings and never come to experience any other worldview. There are lots of those. Basically you accused serious Catholics of being parrots conditioned by their parents to repeat stuff.

Are you a present-day serious Catholic? It takes courage for an atheist to come out when surrounded by Catholics as I am. It takes courage for an orthodox Catholic to hold his own in a secular world. What makes you think I am not being honest? I am being very honest. Experience is what makes me believe you are not honest. Incidentally, your attempts at mind reading fail, and you do a fine job destroying your credibility on your own.

I simply warned people before they spent too much time, as you prefer. Not in a way that would be dishonest. But that does not make me dishonest. Do I have to explain why I think it is hokey? They are seen as evil because of their disdain for the Catholic Church. However, if they are right about the Church, then their disdain is justified. In that case, it is they who are good and the Church that is evil.

I actually think the Masons are right on more matters of significance than the Church. Washington and Franklin were not lacking in what it took to live a fruitful life. Your email address will not be published. What are its qualities which are so worthy of condemnation? There is a widespread assumption that Masonic lodges were essentially political cells for republics and other reformers, and the Church opposed them as part of a defence of the old regime of absolute monarchy in which she was institutionally invested.

What Clement XII described in his original denunciation was not a revolutionary republican society but a group spreading and enforcing religious indifferentism: Catholics, as members, would be asked to put their membership of the lodge above their membership of the Church. The strict prohibition, in other words, was not for political purposes but for the care of souls.

The legal language, and penalties, used in the condemnations of Freemasonry were actually very similar to those used in the suppression of the Albigensians: While the Masonic rites themselves contain considerable material which can be called heretical, and is in some instances explicitly anti-Catholic, the Church has always been far more concerned with the overarching philosophical content of Freemasonry rather than its ritual pageantry.

Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, the Catholic Church and its privileged place in the government and society of many European countries became the subject of growing secularist opposition and even violence. Now, there is little if any historical evidence of the lodges playing an active role in beginning the French Revolution. However, the anti-clerical and anti-Catholic horrors of the Revolution can be traced back to the secularist mentality described in the various papal bulls outlawing the Masonic lodges. Masonic societies were condemned not because they set out to threaten civil or Church authorities but because such a threat was the inevitable consequence of their existence and growth.

Revolution was the symptom, not the disease. The alignment of Church and state interests, and their assault by seditious and revolutionary secret societies, were clearest where the Church and state were one: As the 19th century began, a new iteration of Freemasonry came to prominence which was explicit in its revolutionary character and avowed in its opposition to the Church; they called themselves the Carbonari, or charcoal merchants. They sanctioned and practised both assassination and armed insurrection against the various governments of the Italian peninsula in their campaign for a secular constitutional government, and were perceived as an immediate threat to the faith, the Papal States and the person of the pope.

The undermining of the teachings of the Church in the lodges, and the suborning of her authority on matters of faith and morals, were described repeatedly as a plot against the faith, both in individuals and in society. In the encyclical Humanum Genus , Pope Leo XIII described the Masonic agenda as the exclusion of the Church from participation in public affairs and the gradual erosion of her rights as an institutional member of society.

During his time as Pope, Leo wrote a great many condemnations of Freemasonry, pastoral and legal. Archived from the original on — via msana. Reply to Patterson's letter of inquiry directed to Cardinal Mahoney. Archived from the original on — via archdiocese.

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