Author Topic: Masons welcome Pope Francis (Read 5758 times)

MyrnaM · « **Reply #10 on:** March 21, 2013, 10:32:56 PM »

Yes, we all know how those Masons know their own.

1st Mansion Tenant · « **Reply #11 on:** March 21, 2013, 11:52:53 PM »

From the article quoted above: " As an example, it is supporting the proposed new seminary in Virginia. It has nothing to do with individual donations that people give to the SSPX."

So then why do I keep getting asked to donate for it at almost every Mass, keep getting mailers and ads asking for money for this huge seminary?

padrepio · « **Reply #12 on:** March 24, 2013, 09:11:38 AM »

A better translation.(from Traditioninaction.org)

Italian Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ officially supports
Pope Bergoglio
The day after the election of Pope Francis I, the Grand Orient of Italy (GOI), which represents Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ in that country, issued a formal communiqué praising him for the first egalitarian measures he took on the day of his election. The docuмent also made public the Freemasons' expectations that the new Pope shall lead the Church on the democratic path desired by Masonry.

This attitude was registered on the official GOI website. A photocopy of its webpage is found below, followed by a enlarged copy of the part referring to Francis I. The photos are preceded by our translation of the Italian, in blue.

Communiqué
Rome, March 14, 2013

Grand Master Raffi: "With Pope Francis, nothing will be more as it was before. It is a clear choice of fraternity for a Church of dialogue, which is not contaminated by the logic and temptations of temporal power"

"A man of the poor far away from the Curia. Fraternity and the desire to dialogue were his first concrete words. Perhaps nothing in the Church will be as it was before. Our hope is that the pontificate of Francis, the Pope who 'comes from the end of the world' can mark the return to the Church-Word instead of the Church-Institution, promoting an open dialogue with the contemporary world, with believers and non-believers, following the springtime of Vatican II." These were the comments of Gustavo Raffi, Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Italy, at the beginning of the pontificate of Francis, in the world Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

"The Jesuit who is close to the least ones of history," Raffi continues, "has the great opportunity to show the world the face of a Church that must recover the announcement of a new humanity, not the weight of an institution that closes itself off in defense of its own privileges. Bergoglio knows real life and will remember the lesson of one of his favorite theologians, Romano Guardini, for whom the truth of love cannot be stopped.

"The simple cross he wore on his white cassock," concludes the Grand Master of Palazzo Giustiniani, "lets us hope that a Church of the people will re-discover its capacity to dialogue with all men of good will and with Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ, which, as the experience of Latin America teaches us, works for the good and progress of humanity, as shown by Bolivar, Allende and José Martí, to name only a few. This is the 'white smoke' that we expect from the Church of our times."

SeanJohnson · « **Reply #13 on:** March 24, 2013, 01:18:32 PM »

Quote from: Quo Vadis Petre

Well, it's no wonder Pope Francis was welcomed by Masons: he's an honorary member of the Rotary Club!

Link: http://www.rotaryfirst100.org/history/headings/leaders/vatican.htm#Francis

Quote
In 1999 Pope Francis was elected as an honorary member of Rotary Club of Buenos Aires

From Fr. Cahill's book, Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ and The Anti Christian Movement:

The Rotary International organization may be given as another example of White Masonry.... Again, the Holy See in a decision issued February 4th, 1929, by the Sacred Congregation of the Consistory, has declared that it is undesirable (non expidere)[1] for Bishops or other ecclesiastical superiors to allow the priests subject to them to become members of Rotary or to take part in its meetings. The Osservatore Romano in an authorised article enumerates three main reasons for the decision of the Congregation, viz: the Masonic origin of Rotary, its proved hostility to the Church and its moral code, "which in almost every particular resembles that of Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ".

[1] Cf. Acta Apostolicae Sedis, February 6th, 1929. Concerning the proper interpretation of the words 'non expidere'' cf., Acta Sanctae Sedis, vol. xix, p.94, for a reply of the Congregation of the Holy Office, that these words as used by the Sacred Poenitentiary in 1886, imply a prohibition (prohibitionem importat).

Uh-oh.

It will be important to discern:

1) Has he ever accepted this honor?

2) Is he aware Rotary made him an honorary member?

3) Does Rotary fall under the Masonry excommunication censor?

hollingsworth · « **Reply #14 on:** March 24, 2013, 01:52:04 PM »

I came across a reported interview with Msgr. Borgoglio prior to his election as pope. It's included in Damien Thompson's column in the Telegraph, and is rather lengthy. It may be a frabrication, as Thompson is almost persuaded. If it's not, then I think we need to sit back and let Pope Francis' papapcy begin to flower before passing absolute judgment upon him. This interview could have been placed under a new topic, but I doubt that many forum members will take much interest in it, so I just include it here for a bit of added color and detail.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100208720/did-pope-francis-really-say-that-socialism-causes-misery-and-that-america-is-heading-towards-a-form-of-communism/