Got a question for today: "Is it true that the Vatican has ok'd Catholics to be Freemasons?" I know in the past you would excommunicated for joining,but how bout today & why or why not?

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If you read up about Freemasonry, there is no way in heck that any true Christian would stand for what they truly believe....
I have done some research into Freemasonry, and I must say that there are good reasons for disavowing it
What documentation there is to be found is quite condemning from a Christian perspective, however, in discussions with internet Freemasons, I find they usually disavow said material but fail to produce any material of equal authority to counter it.
Until such documentation can be produced, I will trust the judgment of the Church and that documentation which is available (documentation written by Freemasons themselves, not polemic works written by outsiders), and continue my resistance to Freemasonry
That is not too surprising. Those who have the said damaging documentation have gotten it from a source that has pledged to bring down Freemasonry and have done extensive research to find any cracks in it they can. On the internet you have probably spoken to Freemasons who are laymen and haven't researched everything on the subject but are aware of the basics such as it being a fraternity to make men better me, about it not being a religion, etc.
No, this is not true, I have based my understanding of Freemasonry largely on the writings of Albert Pike, a well respected and knowledgable source within Freemasonry.
It is not my intention to start a full blown Freemasonry debate, and this is why I have not provided accusations, but instead simply state my support for the Church's position on Freemasonry.
If you truly wish to pursue the topic I can, of course with the permission of those who moderate this particular forum
If you read up about Freemasonry, there is no way in heck that any true Christian would stand for what they truly believe....
The reason people were excommunicated from the Catholic Church for being in the Freemasonry is because of what the Freemasonry really practiced behind the scenes. You can read about it here: target=_blank>[URL="http://www.religiouscounterfeits.org"]http://www.religiouscounterfeits.org[/URL]
The Catholic Church wanted to publically disassociate itself from the Freemasonry, because it doesn't look good when things about the Masons are exposed.
Today, some Masons will diminish Pike's importance so as to deflect the charges of anti-Masons. There is no doubt, though, that he was among the most influential Masons of his time. It must be also remembered that this was a time when communications even with surrounding states was severely limited and travel from place to place took days. Pike wrote Morals and Dogma some eight years before Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the first wireless telephone message!
Other Masons - particularly those who may not be totally familiar with the stature of this man - will dismiss him as meaningless. However, that's not true. Pike was a giant of his time who did extraordinary things in his lifetime. He was, in fact, the ONLY Confederate soldier to be honored in America's capitol: Washington, DC, where a huge statue of him dominates a major intersection (Judiciary Square). See more about that here.
But the field of Pike's most fruitful labors was Masonry. His career as a Mason is too recent and his standing as a Masonic scholar is too well-known to all of you to call for any statement in this place. But I may remind you that he became Sovereign Grand Commander of the southern jurisdiction in the Scottish Rite in 1859 and devoted the remaining thirty-two years of his life in continually increasing measure to the work of that rite. Excepting Krause no mind of equal caliber has been employed upon the problems of Masonry. And Krause, great scholar and philosopher as he was, had lived only in the cultured serenity of German university towns whereas Pike had lived in staid Boston and turbulent territorial Arkansas, had been compelled by local public opinion to fight in a duel, had fought in two wars and had commanded Indians. Moreover, Krause's Masonic experience was negligible in comparison with that of this veteran of American Masonry. Accordingly we need not hesitate to pronounce Albert Pike by far the best qualified by nature, experience of life, Masonic experience and Masonic learning of those who have thought upon the problems of Masonic philosophy.