Free masonry and catholics

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No. It is licentious. For it brings distance to the wanted effects of God’s love. The apprehension of his love may be superficial. But when you involve more such as the appetite. You hunger for more and more divine discoveries. The message of the mason to inferior mason brings delusion and there can be no way to worship God in spirit and in truth. (cf. Jn 4:24) The truth frees the mind and the appetite from distractions that neglect the command to love God with all your heart, mind and soul. (cf. Mt 22:37) Besides, it can impute the medicine of excommunication.
 
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There are mountains of information by Catholics about the evils of freemasonry on the internet.
 
I was a Rainbow Girl (International Order of the Rainbow for Girls [IORG]), a Masonic organization for girls, largely because some of my friends were in it. This was in the late 1970s and early 1980s. I have been a baptized Catholic from infancy, though when I was in the IORG I attended Mass erratically (maybe one or two Sundays a month). Due to poor catechesis (though my catechists tried their best, I think that the CCD textbooks were probably inadequate), I did not know that joining a Masonic organization and missing Sunday Mass were sinful. (My father was a lapsed Catholic and my mother was brought up a Methodist: one of her mother’s brothers was a Mason.) In retrospect, I suspect that the fact of my Catholicism contributed to impede my rise in the IORG: although I was an officer in several of the Bow Stations, I never became a line officer, much less a Worthy Advisor (= president of an IORG local assembly). However, I cannot know for sure.
 
As stated several times, no. One of the big reasons is that Freemasonry teaches that ALL Masons will be in Heaven (the Celestial Lodge), while simultaneously NOT proclaiming Christ as Savior. Freemasonry requires that their members believe in a god, but they say nothing of the necessity of Christ in the order of salvation. In other words, even people who do not believe in the Christian God will still be saved, as long as they believe in some god. This is incompatible with Christianity.
John Salza was heavily involved as a Mason for many years, and has written copious amounts of information on this topic.

http://www.johnsalza.com/p/masonry.html
 
One may not be a Freemason if they are a Catholic. Its a secret society and it is forbidden by the law of the Church.
 
Weird that the American founding fathers are Freemason then…
 
America was actually built on freemasonry. There were so many American freemason leaders. I’d argue even that democracy rose from a masonic idea.
 
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Because America was working well despite being run by people in Freemason… or even a freemason country; it kept the Church up. Would you pick Canada or United States for Christian ethics?

Anyway, I think the Freemason issue is that it was not unlike joining both a protestant church and Catholic church at the same time.
 
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Saint Padre Pio converted many Freemasons to the Catholic Church. Evangelization in my belief should not be limited to “those who are not Freemasons.” Things a Saint does or experiences are often for a reason.
 
I’m talking about America. It’s widely known American democracy and freemasonry go hand in hand.
 
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I’m talking about America. It’s widely known American democracy and freemasonry go hand in hand.
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But you cannot say that American democracy arose from a masonic idea. You simply cannot find that masonic idea which is the source, regardless of how many founders were masons. On top of that, the extent of the founders being masons is often overstated: there were three prominent founders who were masons, Washington, Ben Franklin, and John Hancock. I think I read around 20% of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were masons. Adams and Jefferson were not masons.
But back to my first point, even if American democracy and freemasonry went hand-in-hand, you still have to find the “masonic ideal” it arose from for your statement to stand. I still say you are arguing from a severe lack of historical evidence.
 
If you want to join a morally sound men’s club join the Knights of Columbus.
 
As the previous answers have said: No a Catholic cannot be a Free Mason. There is a great wealth of information available online about this topic.
 
Again, I’m talking about American democracy. Many who fled England were against a sort of authoritative government. Free masonry came to America around 1670-1759 by the English, Irish and Scottish Military Lodges. Their ideas caught on with many of the “thinking men” of the colonies. Freemasons believed in a brotherhood under God.

Even the dollar bill has a masonic symbol on it. It’s obvious freemasonry was pretty prominent during this time.
 
I am not arguing that masonry was prevalent to in some of the American colonies. I still say there was no Mason idea that was the basis for American democracy. You have yet to show any evidence of Masonic writings which provided such an idea.
 
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