Biden Joins Black Free Mason Lodge in South Carolina

[FlyersFan]

This clown should have been excommunicated from the Catholic church for his abortion dealings.
Now he's become a FULL MASTER MASON at a Black Freemason lodge in South Carolina.
That also is against the Catholic church, which he professes to be a 'good' member of.
What is the church waiting for ... excommunicate this guy!

So why did this 'good Catholic' join the Masons?   That's an excommunicable offense.
Why did he join a lodge all the way in South Carolina when he lives in Wilmington DE?
Why did he join a 'black' lodge when he's whiter than white?

Biden Joins Black Freemasons

Former US President Joe Biden, a self-professed Catholic, has joined an African-American Masonic lodge as a ‘Master Mason’. The Vatican takes a dim view of Freemasonry, and Catholics who join the fraternal order face excommunication.
 
Biden was inducted into the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge in South Carolina on Sunday, one day before he left office. In a private ceremony, the lodge’s grand master, Victor C. Major, granted Biden “Master Mason membership with full honors,” according to a statement published by the organization last weekend that circulated online on Friday.
 
Pope Clement XII forbade Catholics from practicing Freemasonry in 1738, and this papal ban remained in place until 1983, when the Vatican issued a new order banning membership in organizations that “plot against the Church.” While the new order did not explicitly name Freemasonry, it maintained excommunication as a potential punishment for Catholics who join such organizations.
 
”The faithful who enroll in Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion,” Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who would go on to become Pope, declared at the time

[argentus]

Yes, Joe, we get it.   You're a blackberry.   None of us will ever think of you as a closet racist again.   You are saved.   You can now get into heaven.  Well done.

[Anna]

No matter what one thinks about Biden, there's nothing wrong with a Catholic joining Freemasonry on condition the lodge he belongs to doesn't act against the Church. While the Grand Orient of France and the lodges affiliated with it are often atheistic and anti-clerical, traditional regular Freemasonry admits believers and is not against any church or religion. On the contrary, it even requires from candidates to believe in some deity. Throughout history, a lot of Christians were joining the fraternity. There's nothing in Freemasonry that is blasphemous or anti-christian. On the contrary, the esoteric teachings of Freemasonry, and reading some authors, like Walter Wilmshurst, can help many Christians to understand the deeper meaning of their faith.

​​​​​​At one time I was deeply interested in Freemasonry. I found its symbolism really inspiring. I think there's a lot of spiritual wisdom there. It's more valuable than the pseudo-intellectual writings of the Church prominent bishops or cardinals which very few of the Catholics read anyway. All the stuff about Freemasonry produced by the Church "wise" heads are LIES. And it can be easily verified by anyone willing to go straight to the source.

So why did the Church excommunicate people who belonged to the fraternity? For the same reason it burned heretics at the stake or their books. The Catholic Church has always had problems with tolerating freedom of conscience. Enormous problems. It changed a bit for the better after the Second Vatican Council, when they abolished a famous Index, which included such "blasphemers" like Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Diderot, Voltaire or John Milton. Yeah! That guy who wrote Paradise Lost! And you know what? For reading even one book from that long list, there was the penalty of excommunication. Of course, later nobody cared about it so they disposed of it. That didn't stop some Catholic bishops from raving mad about Harry Potter though to their credit they don't do it as often as Protestants.

[argentus]

No matter what one thinks about Biden, there's nothing wrong with a Catholic joining Freemasonry on condition the lodge he belongs to doesn't act against the Church. While the Grand Orient of France and the lodges affiliated with it are often atheistic and anti-clerical, traditional regular Freemasonry admits believers and is not against any church or religion. On the contrary, it even requires from candidates to believe in some deity. Throughout history, a lot of Christians were joining the fraternity. There's nothing in Freemasonry that is blasphemous or anti-christian. On the contrary, the esoteric teachings of Freemasonry, and reading some authors, like Walter Wilmshurst, can help many Christians to understand the deeper meaning of their faith.

​​​​​​At one time I was deeply interested in Freemasonry. I found its symbolism really inspiring. I think there's a lot of spiritual wisdom there. It's more valuable than the pseudo-intellectual writings of the Church prominent bishops or cardinals which very few of the Catholics read anyway. All the stuff about Freemasonry produced by the Church "wise" heads are LIES. And it can be easily verified by anyone willing to go straight to the source.

So why did the Church excommunicate people who belonged to the fraternity? For the same reason it burned heretics at the stake or their books. The Catholic Church has always had problems with tolerating freedom of conscience. Enormous problems. It changed a bit for the better after the Second Vatican Council, when they abolished a famous Index, which included such "blasphemers" like Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Diderot, Voltaire or John Milton. Yeah! That guy who wrote Paradise Lost! And you know what? For reading even one book from that long list, there was the penalty of excommunication. Of course, later nobody cared about it so they disposed of it. That didn't stop some Catholic bishops from raving mad about Harry Potter though to their credit they don't do it as often as Protestants.

I am of the opinion that the Catholic Church's view of Masonry dates back to the Knights Templar.   I think that the Catholic church was originally supportive and even appreciative of the Templars, until the group became more influential than the church.   After that, of course, they had to go, and I believe that Pope Clement V -- who had been somewhat roughly deposed from Rome to Avignon -- collude with King Phillip IV of France to round up and execute the Templars.    

I believe that Freemasonry was derived from the Knights Templar, and that conventional Masonry derived from them.  I really don't think the papacy cares one way or the other these days, but I think they still feel the roots of their historic rancor.    The precedding verbosity is entirely my opinion.

[FlyersFan]

No matter what one thinks about Biden, there's nothing wrong with a Catholic joining Freemasonry on condition the lodge he belongs to doesn't act against the Church. 

Pope Benedict declared otherwise.
He said simply belonging is enough to warrant excommunication.
For 300 years this has been the case.

[Anna]

Pope Benedict declared otherwise.
He said simply belonging is enough to warrant excommunication.
For 300 years this has been the case.

Well, popes declared many things that many Catholics do not care about apparently. And one such thing is obedience to and respect for the Pope. And not the Pope a Catholic likes but the one that currently stays in power. Cherry-picking is not something that only Biden does. Most Catholics do that because the teachings of the Church (I mean some part of them) can't be stomached even by devout Catholics.

I understand you don't like Biden all too much but that doesn't mean that Catholics joining Freemasonry shouldn't feel part of the Church. Or that they should care about "excommunication." The Church no longer has power to enforce its decrees if it comes to lay people, it can only appeal to their conscience, that is if they are willing to listen.

[xuenchen]

He's always been a phony. Whole life. 

[xuenchen]

They're setting up a safe haven for Biden when he gets indicted. This could be all Jill's doing! 

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Biden discussing joining the Black Freemasons 

[FlyersFan]

I understand you don't like Biden all too much but that doesn't mean that Catholics joining Freemasonry shouldn't feel part of the Church. 

Freemasonry is in direct opposition to Catholicism.
Freemasonry and Catholicism are incompatible.
You can not be Catholic AND a Mason.  
You simply can not be.  
At all levels, they are at war.

Bottom line - it is officially declared to be a 'grave sin' to be a Catholic and to join the Masons.
You can not be in a state of 'grave sin' and receive communion in the Catholic church.
That means you have excommunicated yourself when you join the masons.

Freemasons have infiltrated to the highest levels of the Catholic church in order to subvert it.
Suggested reading - "Infiltration" by Taylor Marshall.

Letter signed by Pope Francis stating that Catholics are forbidden to join the Masons HERE

Catholic News Agency - Why Catholics Can Not Be Masons

The first papal condemnation of Freemasonry came from Pope Clement XII in 1738, but it has been reiterated by numerous popes over the past three centuries. The pronouncement was in Clement’s papal bull titled In Eminenti.
In this bull, Clement commented on the secrecy of Masonic lodges and the “host of grievous punishment” received when violating the oath of secrecy. The bull did not delve into many specific objections to Masonic practices but concluded, based on “certain knowledge and mature deliberations,” that “all prudent and upright men have passed the same judgment on them as being depraved and perverted.”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.

Freemasonry is at war with the Catholic Church.  It openly plots the destruction of the Catholic church and it's whole purpose is to promote naturalism with it's own altars and rituals worshipping a version of 'a grand architect', which is a twisted version of the Christian God.   You can not be a Catholic and a Mason.  The two are incompatible.   

Prior to 1983, the Code of Canon Law explicitly stated that if a Catholic joins the Freemasons, that person incurs an automatic excommunication that can only be lifted by the Holy See. This applied not just to the Freemasons but to any group that engages in plots against the Church. 
 
“Those giving their name to Masonic sects or other associations of this sort that machinate against the Church or legitimate civil powers contract by that fact excommunication simply reserved to the Apostolic See,” canon 2335 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law reads.
 
The 1983 revision of the Code of Canon Law avoided a specific mention of Freemasonry and removed the penalty of automatic excommunication but maintained its ban on joining any groups that plot against the Church.
 
“A person who joins an association which plots against the Church is to be punished with a just penalty; one who promotes or takes office in such an association is to be punished with an interdict,” canon 1374 of the current Code of Canon Law reads.

Biden tours the country promoting abortion, and pushed abortion while in office.  He used his position to push abortion, and even showed up at an abortion clinic recently making the sign of the cross to pray for more abortions and more access to them.   Couple that with his joining the Masons .... he should be excommunicated.   Heck ... he should have been excommunicated long before this.   He knows the rules of the church.  He knows the teachings of the church.   Therefore, he knows why the church says what it does about abortion and about the Freemasons.  He goes against them and actively tries to destroy those rules and teachings.  He is subverting the Church.  Therefore, he should be excommunicated.   That's the law of the church.  The bishops need to grow balls and uphold the rules.  They are there for a reason.