Dialogue with the Devil: Freemasons & the Vatican
Condemnation of Freemasonry + Fiducia Supplicans = intercommunion with the Devil with a clear conscience.
Condemnation of Freemasonry + Fiducia Supplicans = intercommunion with the Devil with a clear conscience.
39 years have passed since Cardinals Oddi and Staffa brought their allegations and evidence to Paul VI.
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There was such a dramatic change in the social and theological dispositions towards Freemasonry amongst many European, Argentinian, and North American Catholics immediately following the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council in 1965, that, at minimum, should have provoked a reasonable and rational concern amongst the faithful. Some have argued that this divergence from the…
Above: a few young monks on their evening walk at the feet of the world’s largest cross. Photo credit Valle de los Caídos @hospederiavc. Editor’s note: as part of Hispanidad, our series on the glories of Spanish Christendom, we turn to this critical monument of 20th century Spanish history in the struggle for the Faith…
On the latest OnePeterFive podcast we discuss some of the roots of Masonic and Marxist infiltration, including the Masonic sacrilege which included these words above at St. Peter’s Basilica. We also reveal our third patron and share how we hope his crusading spirit will help lead our efforts here. T. S. Flanders Vigil of St.…
The USCCB vs. Freemasonry & the Modern Kulturkampf Back on September 20, 2011, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), with then Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York, serving as its President, analyzed the decision by President Barack Obama’s Department of Justice to withdraw from defending the Defense of Marriage Act…
Fr. Charles Murr is one of the last living witnesses to Vatican corruption who is both orthodox and courageous. We have many clerics out there – dare I opine “many”! – who are orthodox, but do not have the courage – or perhaps the opportunity? – to speak the truth come what may. Today, we…
(Above): Illustration from a Prince Hall Masonic convention in 1920. Freemasonry as Method of Subterfuge Among Black Americans In 2003, I wrote what had soon become a groundbreaking book on the history of Prince Hall Freemasonry (the predominately Black sect of Freemasonry in America), entitled, Inside Prince Hall, which included a chapter entitled, ‘The Christianization…
In my previous essay, Former Freemason Explains Freemasonry – pt. 1, I sought to clarify the term ‘Freemasonry’ (i.e., Free & Accepted Masons and Ancient Free & Accepted Masons) within its proper usage and delineation of being a religious fraternal organization, started in England in 1717, and consisting today of hundreds of autonomous craft Grand…
Editor’s note: for more on Freemasonry, see this essay from our contributing editor, Peter A. Kwasniewski. The first rule in war is to know one’s enemy, and yet the enemy of the Catholic, and of the Church Militant, is so shadowy we tend to not even know its name. Many Catholics, animated by charity and…