Catholic Church Loosens It’s Stance On Freemasonry

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1983-11-27

1983-11-27

The new Canon Law of 1983 removed the explicit name of Freemasonry from its banned secret society list (along with all others). Instead it is replaced with the vague wording - any “association which plots against the Church”. Since Freemasonry by it’s own admission is a secret society how would confessing Catholics know to stay away from it just reading the Canon Law?

Also the penitently of joining an group that “plots against the Church” is no longer punishable by excommunication, but instead with interdict which is the forbidding of taking communion and other minor things (which according to the bible is not a requirement of salvation).

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Freemasonry and Rome: Does the Roman Catholic Church allow her members to join Freemasonry?

Link http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/texts/RomanCatholics.html
Author(s): Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon
Publisher: Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon

Linked To:
Catholic Canon Law Bans More Masonic Orders
Catholic Church Loosens It’s Stance On Freemasonry
Canon Law Society of America: Ok For American Catholics To Be Masons

The rise of the Christian Church broke up the intellectual pattern of the classical pagan world. By persecution of this pattern’s ideologies it drove the secret societies into greater secrecy; the pagan intellectuals then reclothed their original ideas in a garment of Christian phraseology, but bestowed the keys of the symbolism only upon those duly initiated and bound to secrecy by their vows.
-Manly Hall