But surely, with all of the historical allegations of freemasonry infiltrating the Church, as a bishop or cardinal you would explore and exhaust all of the alternatives before signing off on a church sale to the Freemasons..?
I followed the link in the article about the Hindu group buying a church in the Diocese of Rochester. What is in the article is truly shocking - and should exclude such a group being considered as a buyer for any church property or chattel. It is much worse than turning the building in to an XXX club.
What Ed and JD may not know is that Cardinal George Pell recovered a church to sacred use while he was Archbishop of Melbourne. There had been an inner-city church that was sold under an earlier Archbishop without due care, and it went from being a hostel to a house of ill repute. When Cardinal Pell was appointed Archbishop he moved the diocesan seminary from the outer suburbs in poorly built shacks to the inner city and set up the Catholic Theological College to be much more central. As part of the move, the former church was purchased and is now the chapel for the seminary.
Masonic Lodges for the first, second, and third degrees are not anti-Christian nor anti-Catholic.
The G in the picture does not stand for God. The Blue Lodges as the presenters of the first three degrees are pre-Christian. They existed before Jesus came to this world. The Blue Lodges were not created to take the place of any religion. They are not pro any religion. Their reason for being created is not religious. There is a strong case to made that the United States of America was created because the founding fathers were all masons. There are a variety of different ways of granting a degree above the Blue Lodge. They are a recent invention. The Blue Lodge degrees are not printed. You have to have a good memory to be come a mason. The lodge is a place where when a member asks for real help, he is helped.
Thank you for this! It would be nice to have more guidance from Rome.
But surely, with all of the historical allegations of freemasonry infiltrating the Church, as a bishop or cardinal you would explore and exhaust all of the alternatives before signing off on a church sale to the Freemasons..?
What the hell?? Sorry, I'm just rather flabbergasted here about that decision.
Conversely, there is an SSPX chapel just over a mile from me now that is a converted Masonic Lodge.
I followed the link in the article about the Hindu group buying a church in the Diocese of Rochester. What is in the article is truly shocking - and should exclude such a group being considered as a buyer for any church property or chattel. It is much worse than turning the building in to an XXX club.
What Ed and JD may not know is that Cardinal George Pell recovered a church to sacred use while he was Archbishop of Melbourne. There had been an inner-city church that was sold under an earlier Archbishop without due care, and it went from being a hostel to a house of ill repute. When Cardinal Pell was appointed Archbishop he moved the diocesan seminary from the outer suburbs in poorly built shacks to the inner city and set up the Catholic Theological College to be much more central. As part of the move, the former church was purchased and is now the chapel for the seminary.
Masonic Lodges for the first, second, and third degrees are not anti-Christian nor anti-Catholic.
The G in the picture does not stand for God. The Blue Lodges as the presenters of the first three degrees are pre-Christian. They existed before Jesus came to this world. The Blue Lodges were not created to take the place of any religion. They are not pro any religion. Their reason for being created is not religious. There is a strong case to made that the United States of America was created because the founding fathers were all masons. There are a variety of different ways of granting a degree above the Blue Lodge. They are a recent invention. The Blue Lodge degrees are not printed. You have to have a good memory to be come a mason. The lodge is a place where when a member asks for real help, he is helped.