This information is interesting, but unfortunately you can't believe what a Mason says because they are all liars. As Dr. James Wardner said, Masons have taken an oath to lie. Nevertheless, if Pius IX was a Mason, he would have been an ineligible due to automatic excommunication. His council making the papacy infallible would be null and void. His successors would be antipopes and not popes, regardless of how good-looking and pious they were. That would make Vatican II null, the Pius X breviary void, all the sneaky Modernist reforms between 1846 and 1958 vacated. Excuse me, did you know that Pope Pius IX was a commissioned officer in the Freemason Napoleon Bonapartes Grand Armee? Participating in the Masonic conquest of Europe? Let me guess... You have your hands over your ears so you won't see. Funny, everyone has at least one false belief he holds onto for dear life. The CMRI deny Feeneyism. The SSPX and Resistance deny sedevacantism. Roscoe denies both. RJMI denies that anyone outside his group can go to Heaven. And the Masonic high council are laughing at us all. They think they have won. I don't. I believe in the Catholic Church, and I believe that somehow it will get back on its feet and smash all the lies we are following.