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By: LisaP.

And here I just picked up, “Foucault’s Pendulum”, I feel so timely. I have a sister in law that was enraged when her Protestant pastor preached to them about how they shouldn’t be Masons. I don’t get...

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By: majuscule

My uncle’s middle name was Mason and he was a Mason. The family was Methodist. At his (very small) graveside service, conducted by a female minister, I discovered that he was being buried in the...

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By: Cathy

A good mother knows that a little child will grasp at whatever looks appealing. She knows what looks good may harm them and she puts these things out of reach. Men wearing funny hats, dressing as...

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By: pjthom81

I think that the reason I like this discussion is because I think something can be learned. The problem is this: If the Masons included many of the founding fathers of the Country, and the US is...

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By: LisaP.

pjthom, This is good: “In any event, the Masons definitely helped create the world around us, and I don’t think we can create a better one until we find a good answer to the secularizing impulse and...

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By: Supertradmum

http://supertradmum-etheldredasplace.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/cradle-of-modernist-heresies.html

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By: Michael_Thoma

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormonism_and_Freemasonry Did Masons actually create the world around us, or is it mainly smoke and mirrors? It seems to me, like the Mormons, the Masons claim anyone...

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By: Andy Lucy

Not entirely sure what you’re driving at, Michael_Thoma, but I’ll try to answer as best I can. While there are many theories regarding the origin of modern Freemasonry (including the theory which...

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By: acardnal

Andy Lucy said, “I have had some small successes in convincing Catholics active in the Lodge of the error of their membership.” Please give some specific, concrete examples, arguments and points we can...

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By: pjthom81

Thanks for the comments Andy Lucy… I’m a history fan myself. The more I hear the more I come to the conclusion that Masonry was/is a deistic mystery cult with historic ties to the House of Hanover...

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By: SimonDodd

By the by, on a different tangent (related to Brazil rather than to the masons), some (baptist) friends spent several years doing missionary work in Brazil, and were troubled to find that south...

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By: Matt R

I think it’s very much besides the point that American/British Freemasons consider the Grand Orient Freemasons to be in schism, and that American Masons don’t plot against the Church. I am not a Mason...

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By: heway

Growing up and being educated in a large Catholic east coast city, we heard about Masons from the altar. Moving to a small farmng community on the west coast found many Catholic men involved in...

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By: adriano

I hope and pray, that one day the Knights of Columbus will be stablished here in Brazil …

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By: Ralph

Many in my family and my wife’s family are masons. It is a sore point in some of our get togethers. Perhaps I am a simpleton, but if Holy Mother Church says I can’t be a mason, that’s good enough for...

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By: bookworm

“Most Lodges are too involved in bitter internecine disputes over whether to have fish or ham at the dinner before the monthly Lodge meeting to be bothered with plotting against anyone.” Reminds me of...

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By: FrJLP

@Andy Lucy: I am a former Mason from a family with a long history in Freemasonry in Western New York. I think your assessments are spot-on and well-reasoned. And I agree that the “plots against the...

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By: Johnno

Ah more of that ‘ecumenism’? Priests are disciplined by their bishops for defendingmarriage and heterosexuality, and yet here we are with bishops freely consorting witht eh enemy. If you don’t believe...

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By: Gretchen

I wonder if the very ignorance of the lower-degreed Masons (those who have no clue about the ultimate purposes of Masonry) doesn’t work in favor of spreading this organization. The good works they do...

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By: LionelAndrades

When they interpret Vatican Council II according to Cushingism and not Fr Leonard Feeney then they believe there is salvation outside the Church. So they are ‘open’ to Lutherans…Masons. SSPX CAN ACCEPT...

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