-Caveat Lector- .............................................................. Forwarded from the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: From: St. John the Sublime Reformer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Declaration on Masonic Associations, Pope John Paul II Date: Thursday, December 30, 1999 9:39 AM DECLARATION ON MASONIC ASSOCIATIONS Issued by the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on November 26, 1983. It has been asked whether there has been any change in the Church's decision in regard to Masonic associations since the new code of Canon Law does not mention them expressly, unlike the previous law. The Sacred Congregation is in a position to reply that this circumstance is due to an editorial criterion which was followed also in the case of others associations also unmentioned inasmuch as they are contained in wider categories. Therefore the Church's negative judgement in regard to Masonic associations remains unchanged since their principals have always been considered irreconcilable with the doctrine of the Church and therefore membership in them remains forbidden. The faithful who enrol in Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion. It is not within the competance of local ecclesiastical authority's to give judgement on the nature of Masonic associations which would imply a derogation from what has been decided above, and this in line with the declaration of this Sacred Congregation issued on 17 February 1981 (cf. AAS 73 [1981] pp. 240-241). In an audience granted to the undersigned Cardinal Prefect, the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II approved and ordered the publication of this Declaration which has been decided in an ordinary meeting of the Sacred Congregation. Rome, from the Office of the Sacred Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, 26 November 1983. JOSEPEH Card. RATZINGER Prefect Fr. Jerome Hamer, O.P. Titular Archbishop of Lorium Secretary ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEGATIVE JUDGMENT OF MASONIC ASSC. REMAINS UNCHANGED IRRECONCILIABLE WITH THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH MEMBERSHIP IN THEM REMAINS FORBIDDEN IN A STATE OF GRAVE SIN MAY NOT RECEIVE HOLY COMMUNION NOT WITHIN THE COMPETANCE OF LOCAL ECCLESIATICAL AUTHORITIES TO GIVE JUDGMENT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What could possibly be clearer ? 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