Catholic Church

Is Freemasonry at odds with the catholic church

The Catholic Church officially prohibited Catholics from joining Freemasonry under pain of automatic excommunication through Pope Clement XII's papal bull In Eminenti in 1738. The papacy objected primarily to the Craft's open admission of men of all religious faiths, its strict oaths of secrecy, and perceived threats to spiritual and civil order. Pope Benedict XIV renewed this condemnation in 1751. Enforcement varied widely across jurisdictions: Cardinal Firrao issued an edict imposing death and confiscation of property within the Papal States, and the Inquisition prosecuted Masons in Italy, whereas the Parliament of Paris refused to register the bull.

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