But you are Catholic and a Mason!
After much searching, studying, and praying I made my decision to become a Freemason. I found a lot of conflicting and confusing information on the Catholic Church and Freemasonry but here is what I got out of it. I. First the Papal Bulls: “Papal Bull: As for the binding force of these documents it is generally admitted that the mere fact that the pope should have given to any of his utterances the form of an encyclical or bull does not necessarily constitute it an ex-cathedra pronouncement and invest it with infallible authority.” (Bulls and Briefs. In The Catholic Encyclopedia) In 1736, the Inquisition investigated a Masonic Lodge in Florence, Italy, which it condemned in June 1737. This investigation led, in 1738, to Pope Clement XII, himself Florentine, issuing ‘In eminenti apostolatus’, the original papal prohibition on Freemasonry. The reasons for the prohibition were stated as: “ Now it has come to Our ears, and common gossip has made clear , that certain Societies, C