Italian Freemasonry mourns Francis, a kindred spirit

Michie · Apr 23, 2025

We're not in the habit of reproducing Masonic press releases, but this obituary of Francis is a special case.

Editors’ Notes

The Grand Lodge of Italy has issued an extraordinary tribute to Francis, hailing him as a man who “incarnated the values of brotherhood, humility, and the quest for a planetary humanism.” In doing so, they confirm—without embarrassment or evasion—what we and others have long argued: that this man, and the revolution he fronted, are the fulfilment of Enlightenment and Masonic aspirations.

The Lodge praises his encyclical Fratelli tuttias a manifesto for the Masonic and Revolutionary triad of Libertas, Aequalitas, Fraternitas. They claim that his faith was aligned with their own “Masonic initiatory method, founded on a path free from dogmas,” and embrace his embrace of doubt and dialogue, and his promotion of “a planetary conscience”—all classic code for a religion of man. “Planetary humanism”—which may also refer to a “global humanism”—is their term, not ours.

They recognise in Francis a man after their own heart: one who sought to “change the Church” by bringing the “revolutionary teaching of St Francis” into history—by which they mean the same humanist, anti-supernatural religion that has long replaced the true Gospel in the halls of power.

No doubt Francis’ apologists will claim that this is an example of the Church’s enemies trying to attack her by co-opting Francis after his death.

However, the truth is well known, and we ourselves recently demonstrated how the Enlightenment’s “religion of light”—rationalism, liberty, equality, fraternity—was Luciferian in essence: an inversion of divine order, a rebellion against Christ the King, and the enthronement of man in God’s place.

What Italy’s Grand Lodge now confirms is this:

Francis was not a surprise deviation, nor a tragic fall from past fidelity.
He was the natural outgrowth of a conciliar revolution designed to enthrone man.
He was their pope—of their ideals, their religion, their light.

And now they mourn him.

Francis, the Pope of the Poor and Forgotten [‘The Last Ones’]

Obituary from The Grand Lodge of Italy of the Ancient, Free, and Accepted Masons, Italy

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