In light of recent strange events in the Catholic Church, inquisitive people are considering what role Freemasonry may be playing in Catholic hierarchy. Although unable to prove definitively that overt Masonic infiltrators are at the helm, I offer as exhibit “A” the ongoing Synod on Synodality, an ambiguous and peculiar title seemingly meant to throw one off the track (meaningless wordplay as in a “conference on conferencing”). Add to this murky moniker the now imposed dark veil of secrecy, a virtual gag order placed on all Synod participants regarding any discussions, or even the airing of their own thoughts, relating to the Synod summit. This can only create more distrust and suspicion about what is really going on here. After all, this is not some papal conclave but an ecclesial “listening session,” but one to which ordinary Catholics or uninvited clerics are apparently not permitted to listen. Only those exclusive, pre-screened insiders are to be let in on the secrets. Let’s see, what other organization veils its activities in the dark cloak of secrecy? Oh yes, the Freemasons!

Exhibit “B” could be the latest encyclical hailing from the Bergolian papacy, “Laudate Deum,” a more compact 10 year follow up to its tedious progenitor, “Laudate Si.” This papal exhortation which obsequiously bends the knee to the dubious “threats” of climate change and environmental catastrophe barely finds space in its 73 paragraphs to mention anything remotely connected to eternal salvation, but it has a lot to say about Co2. Church, the Bible, and Christianity each get one mention whereas Jesus himself merits a whopping three references sprinkled into an official 7,500 word Church document. These two samplings, many more could be cited, betoken the increasingly secular temporal sounding Vati-speak regularly oozing out of the Vatican these days. And like many aspects of the Francis papacy, they waft a strong odor of Freemasonry.

I do not mean to imply that Francis or his curial staff are all card carrying Freemasons but I think by now it has become apparent to anyone with a half raised antenna that much of the Catholic world has become drenched in Masonic ideology. To support that claim I refer to two of the more prominent principles of Freemasonry, both of which have all but seamlessly been incorporated into today’s median clerical consciousness. From its inception Freemasonry has championed two axioms, 1: spiritual and moral relativism and 2: the perfectibility of both the human person and society.

The first axiom means that there are no absolute truths or moral standards which apply to all of humanity. Everyone is entitled to determine one’s own truth and reality. Consequently the Church’s 2,000 year old teaching that Jesus Christ is the only pathway to salvation has been hotly contested by Freemasonry from day one. Rather, they claim there are many pathways to salvation (whatever such a term may mean to the Mason) and so all creeds stand on equal footing. Wicca or Buddhism is therefore just as expedient as Christianity in achieving one’s eternal end and sanctification. Apparently that relativist message now resonates with many cardinals and bishops. Consider the recent World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal where the hosting archbishop of Lisbon made it clear that this event was not about evangelization but merely a feel-good cultural exchange. The gospel it seems needs to be re-scripted ( a project already being undertaken by geniuses at the WEF assisted by AI of course) to read “Go ye not and make disciples of all nations, for that would be culturally insensitive and intolerant.” Yet as a reward for his heterodox sentiments the archbishop in question was awarded a red hat in the Francis Church.

The second Masonic axiom referred to above can be summed up in the popular phrase, “doing something to make the world a better place.” Just so, countless foundations, governments, and political activists have been working feverishly and spending trillions for several generations to make the world a better place. Instead it seems to be going hellishly in the other direction at an accelerated pace. This is perhaps because the Masonic premise that human nature can somehow be perfected in this world is a false premise. After all, the gospel isn’t about cleaning up the planet but rather cleaning up our souls. “Seek first the Kingdom of God and all these other things will be given to you besides.”

Subversive Masonic philosophy imposes its own culture of temporalism, an obsession with the here and now, where spiritual and moral cleansing up takes a back seat to making the world a better place. Even so the high sounding utopian ideals of Freemasonry seem to have caught the eyes and ears of many of today’s Catholic hierarchy. You don’t have to be a Mason to think like a Mason, which appears to be a real problem for the Church today. Too many prelates are suffering from severe mission creep syndrome. Thinking that through global initiatives, programs, and collaborations the Church can be part of creating some Masonic vision of “heaven on earth” is a dangerous path to tread. It smacks of base materialism, substituting the temporal for the eternal so that in the end man worships not God but man. This is one reason why Freemasonry is rightly called the anti-Church or the Synagogue of Satan, because it fosters human pride on so many levels. The father of pride is Satan and so to indulge so freely in human pride and accomplishment is ultimately to pay homage to Satan.

It is incumbent to remember that the Church’s true mission has always been saving souls, not social equality or saving rain the forest. Yet humanist Freemasonry for 300 years has belittled the Church’s divine spiritual mandate, all the while chipping away at the ecclesial edifice like water dripping steadily on soft clay-stone even as the dire warnings of too many popes have gone unheeded. In 1989 the Blessed Mother, referring to images in the Book of Revelation, gave several warnings to Fr. Gobbi concerning Freemasonry. She specifically declared, “The aim of Masonry is not to deny God but to blaspheme Him.” She continues, “The task of Masonry is that of fighting in a subtle way… to obstruct the soul… To the seven theological and cardinal virtues, the fruit of living in the grace of God, Freemasonry counters with the diffusion of the seven capital vices, which are the fruit of living habitually in the state of sin. To faith it (Masonry) opposes pride; to hope, lust; to charity, avarice; to prudence, anger; to fortitude, sloth; to justice, envy; to temperance, gluttony.

Again, in her many messages to Fr. Gobbi the Blessed Mother warned specifically about the imminent dangers of ecclesial Freemasonry (#406 June 13, 1989)

“Above all, as Mother, I have wanted to warn you of the grave dangers which threaten the Church today, because of the many diabolical attacks which are being carried out against it to destroy it. To attain this end there comes out of the earth by way of the Black Beast which arises out of the sea, a beast which has two horns like those of a lamb.

“The Black Beast like a leopard indicates Freemasonry. The beast with the two horns indicated Freemasonry infiltrated into the interior of the Church, that is to say ecclesiastical Freemasonry, which has spread especially among the members of the hierarchy... If the task of Masonry is to lead souls to perdition, bringing them to the worship of false divinities, the task of ecclesiastical Masonry is that of destroying Christ and his Church, building up a new idol, namely a false christ and a false church.”

I posit that we have fully arrived at that point of infiltration which the Blessed Mother has time and again warned of for centuries, beginning in Quito, Ecuador in 1620. The present day cultural absorption of Masonic principles has been so complete and ubiquitous that we hardly even notice that it is the air we now breathe. Its revolutionary spirit has infiltrated virtually every institution in our society and corrupted them. Instead of bringing the promised era of equality, peace, and brotherhood the globalist Masonic matrix succeeds only in setting brother against brother, government against its citizens, and nation against nation. For in the absence of God men cannot create heaven on earth but only a hellish existence.

The final battle with the Masonic Black Beast is rapidly approaching, so offer your prayers and penances for those many good priests and prelates, like Bishop Joseph Strickland, who are on the front lines of the fight. Pray especially to St. Michael and the guardian angels every day for they represent our best defense against the subtle wiles of our arch-enemy. In the end, Mary’s Immaculate Heart will undoubtedly triumph, we simply need to make sure that we remain in her camp. So pray the rosary daily without fail and “fear not” as Pope St. John Paul II never tired of reminding us.

Fran Pierson +a.m.d.g. Feast of the Most Holy Rosary