Pope Pius XIII Speaks on Freemasonry

It is incumbent upon Us the Pope to speak out, not only in presenting the truth of our holy Catholic faith but also to speak out against the errors that surface and rage during Our reign. As to standing firm with the truth and firmly opposing error and evil, Pope Felix II had this to say: “An error which is not resisted is approved; a truth which is not defended is suppressed… He who does not oppose an evident crime is open to the suspicion of secret complicity.” In similar words Pope Pius X wrote: “error is approved by non-resistance, and truth is suffocated by not defending her.” We shall begin by bringing to your attention Our concerns over the worldwide menace that is known as Freemasonry. Our exposition of Freemasonry is given not merely as information, but it is given to show that one and all are called on to vigorously oppose it according to their abilities.

First of all We shall introduce you to many of Our predecessors of happy memory who condemned Freemasonry in no uncertain terms. The records of history give us Pope Clement XII as the first Pope to deal with Freemasonry, with a monumental encyclical called In Eminenti, dated April 28, 1738. He said, “We have resolved and decreed to condemn and forbid such societies, assemblies, reunions, conventions, aggregation or meetings called either Freemasonic or known under some other denomination.”

With the audacity of Satan, Freemasonry continued to spread and do its evil works. On March 16, 1751 Pope Benedict XIV issued his Pontifical Constitution called Prividas in which he characterized Freemasonry as “illfamed,” and he said that membership in the secret sect “would lead to evil and perversion.”

At this point We must make it very clear that We join with all the Popes from Pope Clement XII to Pope Pius XII. All of us speak with one voice in the condemnation Freemasonry and the inflicting of punishment on Catholics who brazenly and contemptuously join the Freemasons or similar organizations. We hold that John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I and John Paul II are antipopes. Hence, We are forced to deal with them as non-popes, because that is exactly what they are. They have no divine assistance, so their statements on any topic are no more than those of ordinary private individuals. Sadly We must tell you that those men have so changed their treatment of Freemasonry that those not knowing the divinity of the Catholic Church ask if Freemasonry has conquered the Catholic Church. An obvious concern surfaced when those bogus Popes changed Canon Law, to no longer excommunicate Catholics who join the Freemasons. In this study of Freemasonry We shall quote from a well-researched book entitled: Their God is the Devil written by Paul A Fisher (a husband and father of nine children). His book can be purchased from The American Research Foundation, Box 5687, Baltimore, MD 21210 for $10.00 plus $.50 p/h.

After praising all the Popes from Pope Clement XII to Pope Pius XII, Paul Fisher pours out his gusts on the Vatican II bogus (a fact not known to him) Popes. On page 58 he opens chapter fourteen as follows: “Things progressed (if that’s the appropriate term) for the Jesuit initiative so that in Advent, 1983, the entire Canon Law was rewritten. Old Canon 2335 reads: “Those who join a Masonic sect or other societies of the same sort, which plot against the Church or against legitimate civil authority, incur ipso facto an excommunication simply reserved to the Holy See.” The old canon was expunged, and the new Canon 1374 declared: “A person who joins an association which plots against the Church is to be punished with a just penalty; one who promoted or takes office in such an association is to be punished with an interdict.”

In utter exasperation Paul Fisher says, on page 58: “Gone is any reference to Freemasonry. Gone is any reference to plotting against legitimate civil authorities. Gone is any mention of excommunication. And gone is any reference to membership in the Masonic Fraternity being a reserved sin.” By way of correcting Paul Fisher it should be noted that the reservation is more than just the sin. It is an excommunication reserved simply to the Pope Ipso facto (by very fact), and while an excommunication is present, sins cannot be forgiven. This is a theological study all by itself.

It is probable that some readers will want to see some of the papal document on Freemasonry. As a starter We ask you to get the Encyclical called QUO GRAVIORA Condemnation of Freemasonry, 33 pages, by Pope Leo XII, dated March 13, 1826. You can purchase it from Angelus Press 2918 Tracy Ave., Kansas City, MO, 64109 USA.

Pope Leo XII does a great service in that he publishes as part of his encyclical, the encyclicals condemning Freemasonry by (1) Pope Clement XII (April 28, 1738) the first encyclical condemning Freemasonry, (2) then by Pope Benedict XIV (March 18, 1751), and (3) then by Pope Pius VII (September 13, 1821). Pope Leo XII shows how he and his predecessors saw the same evils in Freemasonry, and all of them with one voice condemned those evils. In August 15, 1832 Pope Gregory XVI published MIRARI VOS, On Liberalism and Religious Indifferentism. This nineteen-page booklet is also available from Angelus Press (address given above). Also from the same Angelus Press you can purchase Pope Leo XIII’s condemnation of Freemasonry with his encyclical called HUMANUM GENUS dated April 12, 1884.

From the first condemnation of Freemasonry by Clement XII in 1738 all the Popes have had to condemn Freemasonry in one form or another. In MIRARI VOS, the subtitle is “Liberalism and Religious Indifferentism.” Our illustrious predecessors found themselves fighting Masonry (same as Freemasonry) both outside the Church and also inside of the Church. Thanks be to God, by the all holy providence of God, We just came into possession of the book entitled: AN OUTLINE OF HISTORY of The Church by Centuries (From St. Peter to Pius XII). The author of the book is Joseph McSorley, a professor of theology in several worldwide Catholic universities. The imprimatur is dated November 23, 1942, and the first edition was published in 1943. The updated edition that We now quote from is the ninth updated edition, dated 1954, that is, just four years before the death of Pope XII. This monumental work covers 1174 pages. Hence, no matter how extensive the historical problems may have been, Father McSorley had to digest the material and explain them as briefly as possible. We now quote Father McSorley’s treatment of…

“Freemasonry: One trend of the times was revealed by the development of Masonry into a worldwide organization with an enormous membership. Many lodges adopted a common general program of “unsectarianism” which proved to be anticlerical, anti-Catholic, and, at times anti-Christian.

“It is difficult to say how much truth there is in the claim made by some Masons that their organization played a leading part in all the revolutionary movements of the nineteenth century. There exists, however, good evidence to show that Masonry had much to do with official antagonism to the Catholic Church in many countries – Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Brazil, and Mexico. Nobody questions the large contributions which Freemasons made to the establishment of United Italy and to the founding of the Third French Republic. Mizzeni and Garibaldi were Masons: Francesco Crispi – Prime Minister of Italy 1887-1891, and again 1893-1986 – called the Catholic Church “the eternal enemy”; the Grand Orient of Italy claimed to have the backing of the whole Masonic world in its fight against the papacy. The Grand Orient of France in 1877 removed from its constitution a paragraph which seemed to commit Masons to belief in God; and a quarter of a century later the head of the same Grand Orient declared that the Catholic Church ‘began to decay rapidly from the very day on which Masonic associations were established.” Leon Gambetta formulated his view of the Church in the phrase “Clericalism! There’s the enemy.”

“In view of all this, one may readily understand how it happens that the Church has condemned Freemasonry on numerous occasion; that provincial and plenary councils prohibited Catholics from joining Masonic lodges; that Leo XIII in 1884 charged Freemasonry with aiming at the overthrow of the whole religious, political, and social order based on Christianity and at the establishing of a new order based on pure naturalism.” End quote! This statement of Pope Leo XIII (given 120 years ago) concerning Freemasonry remains valid to this day. The Freemasons are still the same, and the Church, which defends the truth, is still the same. Once again, John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I and John Paul II are a part of the problem; not the solution. These men have aided and abetted Freemasonry to the greatest detriment to souls.

Before going into specifics We feel it is important to give you a general schema of Masonry. We descend from top to bottom. On top is antichrist and follows – Council of 13, Council of 33, The 300, B’ani B’rith, Grand Orient, Communism, Scottish Rite, York Rite, White Masonry, Rotary, Elks, YMCA, etc., Blue Lodge, Pro-Masons – Masons without the Aprons, British Israelism, Catholic and Protestant Liberalism: all sitting on the base called Materialism, Occultism, with the Deification of Man. Do you still remember the stinking words of Paul VI, saying that he worshiped man, and that man is god? Once again, Paul VI is part of the problem; not part of the solution.

We quote from a booklet entitled Secret Jewish Plot Unveiled, published without an author noted by Christian Book Club of American, P.O. Box 900566, Palmdale, CA 93590-0566, dated 1992. Without understanding the Jewish hand in Masonry it is impossible to understand Masonry. The above booklet states on page four: “The B’nai B’rith Lodges or Lodges of the Sons of the Covenant are Masonic Lodges exclusively Jewish… B’nai B’rith is so organized that it can utilize its machinery to supply Jewish needs of almost every character…” Those who would like to peruse this study should read the book by Lady Queensboro on B’nai B’rith entitled Occult Theocracy.

What absolutely amazes Us is the way Masonry gets control of nearly everything. In the USA in many rural areas, you see round (bull’s eye) signs on racks advertising the Masons and the sub-Masonic organization, as noted above: Rotary, Elks, YMCA, Lions and so forth and so on – to fifteen or so such signs. They add beside, or in front of, the Masonic sign their hypocritical civic concern: “Drive carefully. We love our children.” Added to the above-mentioned societies there are many smaller organizations, which the Masons form in order to get the city populace to be part of their diabolical scheme to bring about an atheistic and all natural society. It even crunches in its hand the apparently wonderful civic society called The Boy Scouts of America. Sad to say, even the Knights of Columbus are infiltrated by the Mason.

Many people think that bad things just happen by chance or the weakness of human nature because of Original Sin. Quoting again from the booklet Secret Jewish Plot Unveiled. We read that much evil follows from diabolical planning, by the Jews in their secret and condemned societies. On Pages 3 - 7 one reads: “We are the Fathers of all Revolutions - even of those which sometimes happen to turn against us. We are the supreme Master of Peace and War. We can boast of being the Creators of the REFORMATION. Calvin was one of our Children; he was of Jewish descent, and was entrusted by Jewish authority and encouraged with Jewish finance to draft this scheme in the Reformation.

“Martin Luther yielded to the influence of his Jewish friends, and again, by Jewish authority, and with Jewish finance, his plot against the Catholic Church met with success.

“Thanks to our propaganda, to our theories of Liberalism and to our misrepresentations of Freedom, the minds of many among the Gentiles were ready to welcome the Reformation. They separated from the Church to fall into our snare. And thus the Catholic Church has been very sensibly weakened, and her authority over the Kings of the Gentiles has been reduced almost to naught.

“We are grateful to Protestants for their loyalty to our wishes – although most of them are, in the sincerity of their faith, unaware of their loyalty to us. We are grateful to them for the wonderful help they are giving us in our fight against the stronghold of Christian Civilization, and in our preparations for the advent of our supremacy over the whole world and over the Kingdoms of the Gentiles.

“So far we have succeeded in our throwing down most of the Thrones of Europe. The rest will follow in the near future. Russia has already worshipped our rule. France, with her Masonic Government, is under our thumb. England, in her dependence upon our finance, is under our heel, and in her Protestantism is our hope for the destruction of the Catholic Church. Spain and Mexico are but toys in our hands. And many other countries, including the USA, have already fallen before our scheming.

“But the Catholic Church is still alive….

“We must destroy her without the least delay and without the slightest mercy. Most of the Press in the world is under our Control; let us therefore encourage in a still more violent way the hatred of the world against the Catholic Church. Let us intensify our activities in poisoning the morality of the Gentiles; let us spread the spirit of revolution in the minds of the people. They must be made to despise Patriotism and the love of their family, to consider their faith as a humbug, their obedience to their Church as a degrading servility, so that they may become deaf to the appeal of the Church and blind to her warnings against us. Let us, above all make it impossible for Christians outside the Catholic Church to be reunited with the Church, or for non-Christians to join the Church; otherwise the greatest obstruction to our domination will be strengthened and all out work undone. Or plot will be unveiled, the Gentiles will turn against us, in the sprit of revenge, and our domination over them will never be realized.

“Let us remember that as long as there still remain active enemies of the Catholic Church, we may hope to become Masters of the World… And let us remember always that the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before the Pope in Rome is dethroned, as well as all the other reigning Monarchs of the Gentiles upon the earth.” End quotation.

The long quotation above is antichristian, not anti-Semitic. St. Paul in I Thessalonians 2; 15 says this of the Jews: “Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the Prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men.” Since the Jews have not converted since St. Paul wrote those words, his words also express the truth of those people today. We pray that the Jews will quickly become sincere and zealous members of the Catholic Church. The sad fate of the Jews is expressed in THE SOURCES OF CATHOLIC DOGMA also called, Denzinger, in the Council of Florence (1438-1445) #714: “It (the Catholic Church) firmly believes, professes, and proclaims that those not living within the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics cannot become participants in eternal life, but will depart “into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels…” unless they become Catholics and die as Catholics in the state of sanctifying grace: period!

We shall take two quotations from the publication RADIO LIBERTY, P.O. Box 969, Soquel, CA 95037 (800) 544-8927, from the November 28, 2003 edition. The first quotation gives the words of the Malaysian Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad, who openly said: “Today the Jews rule this world by proxy.” The second quotation from Radio Liberty is: “Why did the U.S. invade Iraq? To obtain a staging area for attacking Lebanon, Syria, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. Why does the Bush administration want to replace those Islamic governments? Because they won’t relinquish their sovereignty to the United Nations.” (end quote) At the same time the proxy ruler, George W. Bush, will be giving those Moslem lands, plus the rest of the world, to the complete control of the Jews.

At bogus Council Vatican II that looked as if it had been Catholic, all the assembled Cardinals and Bishops together with their (known or unknown) bogus Popes left the Church and founded a new Church for themselves and their followers.

The Catholic Church continued with the faithful (Bishops, priests and laity) outside the new Protestant religion, generally called the Novus Ordo. Those abandoned faithful, like a stunned person, awakened from sleep, and seeing their abandoned status: in a carefully organized conclave, elected the Pope in the person of Ourself, known as Pope Pius XIII. The devil licks his chops believing that he has conquered Christ and His Church, but We live stored away by divine providence in the USA, in the state of Washington.

We must make another serious condemnation of Masonry as it exists in the minds and hearts of some of the Catholics. It is called liberalism, and Our predecessors have condemned it in no uncertain terms. The problem is this. The Catholics who have this mental disease of liberalism do not know it. Furthermore, it is most contagious, so one and all must guard against this menace of the Catholic faith which leads to the corruption of this world and finally to hell.

Those who want to know if they are infected with liberalism should start their examination of conscience with the book called LIBERALISM IS A SIN by Father Felix Sarada Y Salvany, available from TAN Books and Publishers, Inc. Rockford, IL.

Another important book, which soundly condemns liberalism as it is hidden in the Church, is LIBERALISM & CATHOLICISM, by Rev. Fr. A. Roussel, with its imprimatur dated August 28, 1926. It was translated into English and published in 1998 by Angelus Press, 2918 Tracy Avenue, Kansas City, MO (Order line – 1-800-966-7337). Father Roussel really takes apart the “Liberal Catholic.” Once again, the person with a liberal mentality is like a person with a contagious disease. He gives the disease to others, and he loves to do so from the highest positions in the Church, be that of a bishop, priest and on down to a teacher or parent.

True Catholics believe correctly with divine help because with that help the last Catholics on earth will believe exactly as the first Catholics believed. There is no other way to avoid hell and to attain heaven. Christ the King be praised and blessed forever.