Article: 50 of alt.freemasonry
From: dryfoo@athena.mit.edu (Gary L. Dryfoos)
Newsgroups: alt.freemasonry
Subject: Re: Religious requirements and Freemasonry
Date: 26 Jul 1994 19:49:27 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: world

|>...However, I have yet to hear of
|> ANY CATHOLIC MASON in the US that needs such permission.  They could
|> exist, but the Catholic Masons I know (including two Fransican Preists)
|> never asked any permission of anyone to join.  They were allowed to join
|> as of Vatican II so they did.

} 	Vatican Masonic reminder
} 
} VATICAN  CITY - The Vatican, clarifying
} its position  on  membership in Masonic
} lodges,  said yesterday  that Catholics
} who join such    organizations   commit
} "grave sin."  The new  reminder, in the
} Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano,
} appeared  to   be    aimed  mainly   at
} Catholics  in the  United States, where
} some   have   interpreted recent church
} statements as relaxing the 247-year-old
} ban  on  Masonic membership imposed  by
} Pope Clement XII.   A new code of Canon
} Law outlined on Nov.  25, 1983, omitted
} membership in the Masons in the list of
} offenses       that   incur   automatic
} excommunication. (UPI)

-- dr foo

• See the actual text of the declaration.
• Another article on this question.