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In article <79.322.975@indy.com>, robert.adams@indy.com (Robert Adams) writes:
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>Upon Sun 03-Jul-1994 18:40 thus spake Ron Boutwell unto Trevor@wimsey.com:
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>RB> Actually the answer is very simple NOW.
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>No it isn't.
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>RB> Most ofthe sightings you mentioned above are quite well researched,
>RB> however, Vatican II changed the churches position on Catholics becoming
>RB> Masons.
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>No it didn't.
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>RB> While some very old preists still do not like it, the truth is Catholics
>RB> CAN indeed be Masons and their church no longer has a problem with it as
>RB> described above.
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>I'm afraid that's not the truth of the matter at all.
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>RB> By the way. The change took place in 1984 I believe.
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>What happened in 1984 was the Canon relating to "Subversive Organizations"
>was rewritten and an "anti-clerical" clause was substituted. However, some
>time around 1989 the original language was restored.
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>A Catholic, I became a Mason in 1986. "Grandfathered" as the Canon reverted
>I can remain a Mason only with restrictions - no office, no advancement, no
>role in any ceremony, et cetera.
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>As for Fransiscans joining... I don't believe it. They would have required
>the permission of their Order, and it wouldn't have been forthcoming. Hell!
>A priest can't even join the Knights of Columbus!!!
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> * Ron, 3O minutes of begging doesn't qualify as foreplay.
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>--- D'Bridge/FastEcho /GoldED/USR 28.8k
> * Origin: Robert Adams (radams@cs.wmich.edu) (1:2201/38)


	Interesting.  We have a number of Catholics in our Lodge, including
several Past Masters!  Which brings up another interesting question: I
had heard, a number of years ago, that the Knights of Columbus started
out as a renegade Masonic Lodge?  Can anyone shed some light on the
history of the KofC, and it's relationship, if any, to Freemasonry?

	Fraternally,


-HWM
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