(01-27-2025, 06:42 PM)Anna Wrote: Freemasonry for the Church is just a convenient scapegoat ...
Nope. Freemasonry has worked against the Catholic church for hundreds of years. The very foundation of Freemasonry, which IS a disguised religion, is in direct opposition to the teachings of the Church as well. No one can be a Catholic and a Mason. They are in direct opposition.
At every turn, Joe Biden shows why he isn't really a Catholic. He claims to be. He thinks he is one. But everything he does is against the teachings and rules of the Church. That's what a Protestant would do. Therefore, he is actually some form of Protestant.
The Catholic church has rules in place for reasons which they give. If a person isn't going to bother bother following the rules, then they have no business claiming to be a Catholic. Cuz' they aren't really one. They just claim to be one out of habit or because they think it's a fraternal club, which it's not.
Freemasonry actively seeks the destruction of the Catholic church.
And it's foundation and belief system is naturalism.
And indifferentism towards the worlds religions.
And believing that if a human can't understand it, then it's not to be believed.
No deeper understanding or meditation on Gods Word should be sought.
While acknowledging a 'grand architect', they don't say who that 'grandarchitect' is that they believe in.
Could be satan for all we know.
In fact, considering what naturalism and indifferentism is, that very well could be who actually directs this group.
It's a religion that denies Gods activities with His people, and disguising itself as a fraternal organization.
And it's actively seeking the destruction of the Catholic church.
Their principles have always been considered irreconcilable with the doctrine of the Catholic Church.
Therefore, Biden thumbing his nose at the Catholic church teaching and joining a Mason lodge is demonic.
Why Catholics Can Not Be Masons
Quote:Pope Leo XIII greatly expanded on the Church’s teaching nearly 150 years later in his 1884 papal encyclical Humanum Genus. The encyclical detailed why Freemasonry is irreconcilable with Catholicism and accused the Freemasons of “planning the destruction of the holy Church publicly and openly” and holding to doctrines that contradict Church teaching.
According to Leo, Freemasonry adheres to naturalism, which he says is the idea that “human nature and human reason ought in all things to be mistress and guide.” He adds that “they deny that anything has been taught by God; they allow no dogma of religion or truth which cannot be understood by the human intelligence, nor any teacher who ought to be believed by reason of his authority.”
A papal encyclical detailing just some of the Masonic attacks on the Catholic church in the 1800s Europe.
Quote:For example, in his 1873 encyclical Etsi Multa, Blessed Pope Pius IX detailed Masonic political attacks on the Church in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany. He referred to the Masonic “deceits and machinations” as forming “the synagogue of Satan” in reference to the second and third chapters of the Book of Revelation.
The encyclical touches on attacks against Catholic education, specifically the Gregorian University in Rome being “suppressed and abolished.” Regarding Switzerland, it discusses the passage of anti-Catholic laws, state intrusion into Church matters, and “the violent banishment of our venerable brother Gaspar, bishop of Hebron and vicar apostolic of Geneva.” It also details the “persecution set in motion” against Catholics and the suppression of religious freedom in the German Empire, particularly in Prussia.
