What is a Freemason?

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I heard about Freemasonry and I was always wondering what this group was about. We had members in our ministry that were asked to leave when they could not abandon this practice. Any thoughts? Appreciate the information.
 
Freemasonry is a mixture of religious and philosophical syncretism, especially focused on creating a secular order that denies the transcendent truths of Catholicism. Its members talk a lot of doing good and appear to espouse good-seeming western philosophical values. Its true nature and purpose serve to undermine the Catholic faith. A Freemason, more likely than not, is a fairly innocent person who thought Freemasonry sounded like the in-path to western culture, and who likes the idea of some religious-seeming notions without the bother of “organized religion”. Maybe the Freemason will get deep into the organization, and maybe not: either way they actively pursue the goal of syncretism and man-made religion. Pope Leo XIII wrote an important encyclical on this subject, Humanum Genus, available on the Vatican web site.
 
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… We had members in our ministry that were asked to leave when they could not abandon this practice. Any thoughts? Appreciate the information.
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It’s auto-self-excommunication for members of the Church to belong to Freemasonry, I believe.
 
Perhaps membership in the Freemasons is a little like Satanism in that there are levels or degrees of involvement. Here is what Fr. Amworth has to say about two basic ‘levels’ of Satanism:

There are two types: those who adore the Devil, celebrate Satanic masses, have their own priests and hierarchy; and those who don’t believe in Satan, but engage in actions that are either iniquitous or against nature. The latter is more dangerous. (1)

I think the Freemasons have a small upper echelon and a larger number of innocent fools who have various reasons to like the “craft”, perhaps reasons such as personal networking, or the feeling that Freemasonry is the truest expression of the inner workings of western culture. The innocent fools are perhaps the most dangerous, as they fecklessly embody the values of religious indifferentism and syncretism, and thereby undermine western culture and faith in God. These days Freemasons generally put themselves forward as a friendly bunch of nice people with a few fun secrets, doing good and welcoming all men. The danger is at least that a participant will be innoculated against the sublime truths of revelation, and come to favor erroneous notions like “Catholics and members of Sect Q both worship the same god”.

If you have dabbled, be sure to go to Confession. Freemasonry is a true enemy of the Church. This is no nineteenth-century notion, but is eternally true.
 
There’s a new movie coming out with Nicolas Cage called National Treasure. It has Masonic inferences in it.
 
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It’s auto-self-excommunication for members of the Church to belong to Freemasonry, I believe.
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It is used to be an excommunicatable offense until the most recent Code of Canon Law came out, i beleive in 1983 or sometime around that. (Suspiscious to anyone?) It is still a mortal sin, but no longer is an excommunication attatched to it.

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SeminarianDan said:
It is used to be an excommunicatable offense until the most recent Code of Canon Law came out, i beleive in 1983 or sometime around that. (Suspiscious to anyone?) It is still a mortal sin, but no longer is an excommunication attatched to it.

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That is not correct.

"The Church has imposed the penalty of excommunication on Catholics who become Freemasons. The penalty of excommunication for joining the Masonic Lodge was explicit in the 1917 code of canon law (canon 2335), and it is implicit in the 1983 code (canon 1374).

Because the revised code of canon law is not explicit on this point, some drew the mistaken conclusion that the Church’s prohibition of Freemasonry had been dropped. As a result of this confusion, shortly before the 1983 code was promulgated, the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a statement indicating that the penalty was still in force. This statement was dated November 26, 1983 and may be found in 13/27 (Nov. 15, 1983), 450."

See here from Catholic Answers on EWTN web site.
 
Oshiego_Rod said:
I heard about Freemasonry and I was always wondering what this group was about. We had members in our ministry that were asked to leave when they could not abandon this practice. Any thoughts? Appreciate the information.
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Why would members of your ministry be asked to leave?

Curious.

Just ask Sixtus- I happen to like the threads on Freemasonry.
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In her July 15th entry, the blog * Ask Sister Mary Martha* mentions Freemasonry. It gathered quite a few comments.
asksistermarymartha.blogspot.com/

I found the comments to be illuminating. Freemasonry is a Deist organization. It doesn’t condemn Christianity, but it doesn’t embrace it either. It seems to be a secular organization with religious overtones.
 
csr said:
A Freemason, more likely than not, is a fairly innocent person who thought Freemasonry sounded like the in-path to western culture, and who likes the idea of some religious-seeming notions without the bother of “organized religion”
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Both the Freemasons I know went to church. They weren’t Catholic (of course) and I’m not sure one of them was ever religious (he’s dead now)- he was interested in religion though. The other is religious, and is not anti-Catholic or anything. He is a good person- with a good sense of right and wrong. It doesn’t look bad to most people on the surface- if it did, it wouldn’t be such a problem. Many people are in it their whole lives and are also active members of local churches and don’t realize the anti-Christian roots their organization has. There is an alarming shortage of groups for men, and it is very unhealthy for men to do nothing but go to work all day, come home and be with their families, watch the kids so their wife can have a girls’ night out with her friends- but never do things just with other men.
 
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