[Grem] Freemasonry and Catholicism, women and the EU

[Emoke Greschik]

The saint who founded a movement in response to Freemasonry
by *Francis Phillips
<http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/author/francis-phillips/>*
posted Friday, 17 Nov 2017
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2017/11/17/the-saint-who-founded-a-movement-in-response-to-freemasonry/
St Maximilian Kolbe witnessed celebrations of the 200th anniversary of
Freemasonry

*St Maximilian Kolbe formed the Knights of the Immaculate after*
*seeing* *masonic
celebrations* *in Rome*

Following on from my blog on the revised CTS booklet on fertility and
infertility <http://www.ctsbooks.org/infertility-and-fertility-treatment/>
by Dr Pia Matthews (in the CTS Explanations series), I have been* reading
Freemasonry and the Christian Faith
<http://www.ctsbooks.org/freemasonry-and-the-christian-faith/> by Fr Ashley
Beck, first published in 2005 and revised this year.* This has been
prompted by a friend emailing me a couple of weeks ago to tell me she had
discovered an out of print book *detailing* *all the ways that Freemasons
have been secretly and maliciously orchestrating world events,** from the
French Revolution to the overthrow** of the late Shah of Persia.*

I am suspicious of conspiracy theories, partly because I recognise how
easily they can take hold of the imagination with their vast, compelling
fictions, and partly because they fly in the face of salvation history. I
have occasionally come across devout Catholics who speak sotto voce about
masonic machinations and have privately concluded that, in this area at
least, they are slightly unhinged.

This does not mean that I dismiss the diabolical and the way* it tries to
influence humans in an underhand way.** Evil has been part of the human
story from the very beginning. **The good news is that Christ has conquered
death and, as the children of Fatima showed so beautifully in their
innocent trustfulness of Our Lady of Fatima’s directives, reciting the
rosary daily as she appealed is always the surest way to defeat the
Church’s enemies.*

*Fr Beck’s booklet shows conclusively* that* being a Freemason is
completely incompatible with* *being a Christian*. Why Catholics (and to a
greater extent Anglicans) should ever have been tempted to join them is a
mystery to me.* Although the English branch of masonry, known as the Grand
Lodge, believes in “the Great Architect of the Universe”, this is simply a
form of Deism **– and a heresy.** There is no Trinity, no Christ (and
therefore no Incarnation and Redemption) *and, to return to Our Lady of
Fatima, *no love or reverence for the Mother of God.*

I was very interested to learn from Fr Beck that *St Maximilian Kolbe was
so horrified* *by the public celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the
start of modern speculative Freemasonry in 1717 that he had witnessed on
the streets of Rome as a seminarian there in 1917,** that it led him to
establish the Knights of the Immaculate – reminding Catholics yet again
that so much of what is lovely and hopeful in the world comes to us from
Christ through His Mother.*

*A further footnote from Fr Beck refers to* “*the controversy about the
omission of **any** reference to God or the Christian faith* i*n the draft
Constitutional Treaty of the European Union agreed in 2004*, *about
which * *the
Catholic Church made strong representations:* *the convenor of the
convention which drafted it, former French President Valéry Giscard
d’Estaing, was a mason.”*

Fr Beck also points out that *masonry, unlike **Christianity*,* is
patronising to* *women*. *When a man is initiated into “the Craft”, he has
to remove his wedding ring if he has one – and women cannot be masons. *
But then, uniforms, codes, arcane knowledge, strange handshakes and secular
hierarchies are more characteristic of men than of women.
Fr Beck quotes lines from Mozart’s The Magic Flute that are derogatory
towards women. Much ink has been spilt on the subject of this opera and
freemasonry. My own view is that Mozart was about as much interested in
Freemasonry as Shakespeare was interested in paganism when he wrote his
Roman plays.

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