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Tag Archives: freemasonry

Priest Claims Bishops OK With Catholics Joining Freemasonry in Australia

Jul 17, 2019 Brian Kelly Reply

The Remnant, Kathy Clubb: A Catholic priest and Freemason claims that the Bishops Conference gave permission for Catholics to become ‘Australian Freemasons’ in 2016. Fr. Kerry Costigan, now retired, of the Toowoomba Diocese in Queensland, contributed an article to the … Continue reading →

Yes, Freemasonry Calls Itself a Religion, ‘the Universal Religion’

May 28, 2019 Brian Kelly Reply

David L. Gray blog: In this video (YouTube Link), I push back against the myth that Freemasonry is NOT a Religion by examining what Freemasonry says about itself in it “Anderson’s Constitution of 1738”, which is based upon the ancient … Continue reading →

Why Was Excommunication Lifted Against Catholics Joining Masonry in the New Code of Canon Law?

Nov 22, 2017 Brian Kelly 3

1Peter5, Father Paolo M. Siano: From October 20 – 29, 1981, the Plenary Congregation of the Pontifical Commission for the Revision of the Code of Canon Law met in the Vatican to discuss and vote on the renewal of canon 2335 … Continue reading →

Secret Vatican Document Exposes Masonic Plot to Destroy Altar and Throne

May 12, 2017 Brian Kelly Reply

1Peter5, Maike Hickson: Dr. Michael Hesemann, a German historian of the Catholic Church, has just given an interview to Robert Moynihan’s Inside the Vatican Magazine. In this interview, which deals with the 100th Anniversary of the apparitions of Fatima, Dr. Hesemann … Continue reading →

FYI: Freemasonry and the Knights Templar (Not the Knights of Malta)

Feb 8, 2017 Brian Kelly Reply

The Lepanto Institute, Michael Hichborn: The Mysterious recent events surrounding the Sovereign Military Order of Malta took a strange and unexpected twist in the beginning of January when, in the middle of a bitter feud over the suspension of one of … Continue reading →

Masonic Faux ‘Philanthropy’ vs Catholic Charity

Feb 1, 2017 Brian Kelly Reply

The Five Beasts: While Freemasonry originated in 1717, it was in 1870, the same year the American order, the Shriners, were founded, that it began a concerted assault on the institutions of the Roman Catholic Church. It was a portentous year as the government of Italy … Continue reading →

Pope Francis Had Ordered a Purge of Freemasons From Knights of Malta

Jan 13, 2017 Brian Kelly Reply

EWTNews, Nick Donnelly: It has emerged that during a meeting between Pope Francis and Cardinal Burke in November about the scandal of the Knights of Malta distributing condoms and oral contraceptives in Africa, the Holy Father instructed Cardinal Burke to “clean … Continue reading →

Bishop Schneider Calls Freemasonry ‘Instrument of Satan’

Jan 6, 2017 Brian Kelly Reply

1Peter5, Deacon Nick Donnelly: Bishop Athanasius Schneider, a collaborator with Cardinal Burke and an auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, have given a lecture on “Mary, conqueror of all heresies”, in which he warned that Freemasonry is an “instrument of Satan”. Bishop Schneider made this observation … Continue reading →

L’Osservatore Romano Releases Stunning Unpublished Note on 1903 Conclave

Jun 11, 2014 Brian Kelly 2

In our 1976, Saint Pius X Fall issue, of From the Housetops, the allegation by Monsignor Jouin, a well-respected authority on International Secret Societies, that Cardinal Mariano Rampolla was linked to freemasonry was included in the saint’s biography. Cardinal Puzyna’s notes … Continue reading →

Suspected Freemason Cardinal Rampolla Lauded by L’Osservatore Romano

Dec 16, 2013 Brian Kelly Reply

Catholic Culture: On the occasion of the centenary of his death, L’Osservatore Romano has recalled the figure of Cardinal Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro (1843-1913), whom the newspaper described as the “true helmsman” of the Church during the last years of the pontificate of … Continue reading →

He Died in His Armor, Padre Francesco Vera

Jan 6, 2011 Eleonore Villarrubia 4

I was asked by Brian Kelly to translate a Spanish tribute for one of the 4000 priests who were martyred in or exiled from Mexico during the anti-Catholic Masonic persecution of the Church in the 1920s and 30s. The priest … Continue reading →

Freemasonry More Common Among Anglo-Catholics Than Low Church?

Nov 4, 2009 Brian Kelly Reply

This I didn’t know.  If it’s true, it’s bad news.  Potential converts would have to renounce their memberships if they truly wanted to become Roman Catholic.  Even though I believe some of what Father Beck says in his article is … Continue reading →

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