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“Doctrinal Development” on Freemasonry

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from one peter five by timothy flanders

Cardinal Martini, the architect of the St. Gallen Mafia, had an auxiliary bishop in Milan. That man was Francesco Coccopalmerio, whom Benedict XVI elevated to the cardinalate a year before he resigned. You may shudder to remember Cardinal Coccopalmerio from the Capozzi affair – when his secretary was caught in a revolting cocaine sodomitical orgy – or the Inzoli affair – when Coccopalmerio was alleged to have advocated for child abuser Mauro Inzoli to be reinstated as a priest.

These things are only symptoms of a dialogue with the Devil that seems to have been going on for some time in Milan under Cardinal Martini and his Mafia. The latest scandal about the Vatican and Freemasonry was not the first time this happened publicly.

On February 16, 2024, Cardinal Coccopalmerio was a presenter at a Masonic conference organised by three Italian lodges.

It was here that the Benedict-appointed Cardinal became the first prelate to ask for a “permanent dialogue” with the demonic conspiracy known as Freemasonry.

But under the Francis pontificate, this also was not the first time we’ve seen prelates dance publicly with the Devil. In 2016, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi wrote what Pentin calls a “conciliatory letter” to the Freemasons, which has helped to spur on this absurd dialogue between Truth and lies.

Now Cardinal Coccopalmerio has presented again publicly to the Freemasons, saying there has been “an evolution in mutual understanding” between the devil’s minions [Freemasonry] and the Catholic Church.

“Evolution?” (When you say the word it’s like magic, and it turns black into white and Coke into Pepsi. Try it!) Remember when Fernández said the magic word “development” in order to contradict the ban on blessing sodomy? More on that in a minute.

As David L. Gray shows, there are few things since the 18th century that the Magisterium (before and after Vatican II) has been more consistent on than its condemnation of Freemasonry:

Thankfully, this is not something that Trads and Communio Catholics need to disagree about. Pentin:

In a 1983 declaration approved by Pope St. John Paul II, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger reasserted that the Church’s “negative judgment” on Masonry remained “unchanged” since Masonic principles “have always been considered irreconcilable with the doctrine of the Church and therefore membership in them remains forbidden.” 

“The faithful who enroll in Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion,” Cardinal Ratzinger added. However, neither that declaration nor the 1983 Code of Canon Law imposed the penalty of excommunication on Catholics belonging to the Masons — something that had been in force since Clement XII’s papal bull.

Even His Eminence, Cardinal Tucho Fernández, affirmed again last fall “the irreconcilability between the Catholic faith and Freemasonry.”

But words are just that, more words. Actions speak louder than words – do we really have to remind people of that? And this pontificate is all about undermining doctrine by means of “pastoral practice.” That’s why Freemasons have praised and thanked His Holiness as he has promoted by word and deed the message of Freemasonry – a worldwide brotherhood without Christ.

The Catholic Church is the true “new world order” of Jesus Christ as King of souls and societies.

Freemasonry is a new world order without Christ.

Therefore, Freemasonry is the new world order of Antichrist.

It’s really as simple as that.

The Devil does not have the power to create, only mar and distort what God creates, making His beauty into something ugly in the name of “fraternity” and “freedom.”

But with the latest news, we now see maybe why the Vatican issued this condemnation of Freemasonry in November.

Condemnation of Freemasonry + Fiducia Supplicans = intercommunion with the Devil with a clear conscience in the name of “mercy.”

From Riccardo Cascioli:

As with gay unions, one could always say that it is not Freemasonry that is blessed but individual Freemasons. And in fact [Cardinal] Staglianò[‘s speech to the Freemasons] does not defend this discrimination, rather he lays the groundwork to overcome it. Including the final invocation of a “healthy sapiential theology” that goes beyond the doctrinal approach that the latest document of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith published last November is still steeped in.

Who is Staglianò? What did Pope Francis put him in charge of? The Pontifical Academy of Theology of course! So he’s the one to add 2 + 2 to get 5 by means of the magic word “evolution” or “development” or “mercy” or whatever other talisman word they want to use.

As the Francis pontificate is reaching its twilight, the truth about the undercurrent of darkness is brought more and more into the light.

For this, we should be grateful to Almighty God.

For the mystery of iniquity already worketh; only that he who now holdeth, do hold, until he be taken out of the way. And then that wicked one shall be revealed whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of his mouth; and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming, him, Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders, And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish; because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying: That all may be judged who have not believed the truth, but have consented to iniquity. 

But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved of God, for that God hath chosen you firstfruits unto salvation, in sanctification of the spirit, and faith of the truth: Whereunto also he hath called you by our gospel, unto the purchasing of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, brethren, stand fast; and hold the traditions which you have learned, whether by word, or by our epistle. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God and our Father, who hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation, and good hope in grace, Exhort your hearts, and confirm you in every good work and word. (II Thess. ii. 7-16).

Historic Debate on Church-Masonry Relationship in Milan

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from “il messagGero” by Franca Giansoldati

All eyes are on the Church-Masonry confrontation organized in the shadow of the Milan cathedral. The Milanese archbishop, Mario Delpini and the Grand Master of the Grand Orient, Stefano Bisi will be the protagonists of an open discussion on a controversial relationship that has been dragging on for centuries. Two months after the declaration on the absolute incompatibility for Catholics to be part of Masonic lodges («On a doctrinal level active membership is forbidden because of the irreconcilability of the doctrine») signed by Pope Francis at the foundation of the Ambrosianum, an event defined as “historic” by the Masons was organized. Alongside Monsignor Mario Delpini there will also be the president of the Pontifical Academy of Theology Monsignor Antonio Stagliano’ and Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, former president of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts. On the website of the Grand Orient it is explained that they will openly discuss how the Church formulated the excommunication under the pontificate of Clement XII up to the present day. Bisi’s report is titled: “Freemasonry between Ratzinger and Bergoglio”.

The last Vatican condemnation dates back to last November. It was raised by a Filipino bishop Julito Cortes rather worried about the continuous increase of faithful enrolled in Freemasonry in his diocese and turned to Rome for guidance on how to deal with the phenomenon from a pastoral point of view. Over the centuries the pronouncements have been different and always with negative connotations. In total there are about six hundred: from the excommunication bull ‘In eminenti apostolatus specula’ (1738) of Clement XII to the important declaration of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of 1983, drawn up by the then Cardinal Ratzinger and approved by Saint John Paul II.

A declaration, the latter, which reaffirmed «the negative judgment of the Church towards Masonic associations, since their principles have always been considered irreconcilable with the doctrine and therefore membership in them remains prohibited». Pope Francis has also expressed himself several times in critical tones. Talking about the many saints who enriched social life in Turin in the nineteenth century, Bergoglio in 2015, during his Piedmontese trip, emphasized: «In this land – and this I also said to the Salesian Family – at the end of the nineteenth century there were the worst conditions for the growth of youth: there was full-blown Freemasonry, even the Church could do nothing, there were the priest-eaters, there were also the Satanists… It was one of the ugliest moments and places in the history of Italy. But if you want to do a nice homework, go and look for how many saints and how many saints were born at that time! Why? Because they realized that they had to go against the current compared to that culture, to that way of life».

Also in 2015, in Avvenire, a letter from the Grand Master, Bisi, was published, raising the reasons for the incompatibility between the Church and Freemasonry. The occasion to address such an uncomfortable topic was a conference organized by the Grand Orient of Italy in Syracuse at which the then bishop of Noto, Monsignor Antonio Staglianò, had spoken. Bisi explained to Avvenire that the Masons «do not have to convince anyone» but certainly the «Freemasonry will never and never endorse dogmas and fideistic axioms that are far from its centuries-old tradition».

To the letter responded the then director of the newspaper of the Cei, Marco Tarquinio who, while praising the dialogue, clarified that there were two opposing visions. “If the Masons were once excommunicated ipso facto by the Church, over time the judgment seems to have mitigated a bit. In November 1983 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith published a declaration on Masonic lodges. The then prefect Joseph Ratzinger specified that membership constitutes objectively a serious sin and that members of a Masonic association cannot access Holy Communion. Hence the conviction that there is a fundamental incompatibility between the principles of Freemasonry and those of the Christian faith».

The controversies then continued with Monsignor Nunzio Galantino (at the time secretary of the Cei) who from the pages of Famiglia Cristiana had repeated that «everything that by individuals or groups attacks the common good for the benefit of a few cannot be accepted» and condemned those priests or those bishops who had joined the Free Masonry. Bisi’s immediate reply was: «Those of the general secretary of the Italian Episcopal Conference seemed to us very heavy and inappropriate words for a high representative of the Vatican who should have great familiarity in measuring the verb with wisdom, balance and extreme caution before accusing so glaringly and personally excommunicating Freemasonry».