From The Old Catholic Encyclopedia:
"In order to appreciate rightly these texts characterizing modern "speculative" Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ it is necessary to compare them with the corresponding injunction of the "Gothic" (Christian) Constitutions regulating the old lodges of "operative" Masonry till and after 1747. These injunctions are uniformly summed up in the simple words: "The first charge is this that you be true to God and Holy Church and use no error or heresy". [29] The radical contrast between the two types is obvious. While a Mason according to the old Constitution was above all obliged to be true to God and Church, avoiding heresies, his "religious" duties, according to the new type, are essentially reduced to the observation of the "moral law" practically summed up in the rules of "honour and honesty" as to which "all men agree". This "universal religion of Humanity" which gradually removes the accidental divisions of mankind due to particular opinions "or religious", national, and social "prejudices", is to be the bond of union among men in the Masonic society, conceived as the model of human association in general. "Humanity" is the term used to designate the essential principle of Masonry. [30] It occurs in a Masonic address of 1747. [31] Other watchwords are "tolerance", "unsectarian", "cosmopolitan". The Christian character of the society under the operative régime of former centuries, says Hughan [32] "was exchanged for the unsectarian regulations which were to include under its wing the votaries of all sects, without respect to their differences of colour or clime, provided the simple conditions were observed of morality, mature age and an approved ballot"."
http://www.ecatholic2000.com/cathopedia/vol9/volnine745.shtmlAccording to this, Masonry became a fraternal organization based on the ideals of The Universal Brotherhood Of Man, regardless of Race, Religion, Creed, Ect...
Not surprisingly, many of The Founding Fathers of America were Masons; you can see these Masonic Ideals expressed in The Declaration Of Independence and later extended to women in voting rights and cultural-social-political movements like Feminism.
Furthermore, it is not surprising that this very same philosophy would eventually lead to the desire for a truly "United States," through war if necessary, followed by a "United Europe," via WWI and WWII and a United World through organizations like The World Bank and The United Nations.
Catholics, of course, look to stories like The Tower Of Babel and say, Heaven is a place we Hope to go to after we die, not something we are building here on Earth. The Lion will lay down with The Lamb in Heaven, not on Earth. So, here we need to "guard the hen house," from "the wolves." Which is to say, we don't want Jєωs, Muslims, Buddhists and Atheists ruling over us; we want to be ruled by Catholics, according to Catholic Ideals, not The Revolutionary Ideals of Masonry or anything else.