The Vatican has confirmed a ban on Catholics becoming Freemasons, a centuries-old secretive society that the Catholic Church has long viewed with hostility and has an estimated global membership of up ...
The Black Church and Freemasonry has had a mixed relationship. Many of Philadelphia’s notable church pastors and those men in the pews in predominantly African-American churches are Masons. Many of ...
As reported in the Belgian daily Le Soir on 17 February, Freemasons should not be allowed to open a bureau in Brussels to lobby against religious organisations in EU institutions. Leading Freemasons ...
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — After participating in a seminar on the Catholic Church and the Freemasons, an Italian bishop reaffirmed that Catholics who belong to Masonic lodges are in a “serious state of sin ...
Back in 1738, Pope Clement XII got his vestments in a knot over the Freemasons. There was an investigation in Italy, and then a nasty wrangle with a French cardinal. So Clement XII issued In Eminenti, ...
April 19, 2006 — -- Having tackled the secretive Catholic conservative group Opus Dei, Dan Brown says he's writing his next book about the Freemasons. The Freemasons say they are simply a ...
The Vatican reiterated the Catholic Church’s ban on its faithful joining Freemasonry, directing the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) to address the issue through “a coordinated ...