{"id":86410,"date":"2024-02-16T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=86410"},"modified":"2024-02-23T07:29:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T15:29:11","slug":"ncr-archbishop-of-milan-to-take-part-in-historic-closed-door-seminar-with-italys-freemasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/religious-news\/ncr-archbishop-of-milan-to-take-part-in-historic-closed-door-seminar-with-italys-freemasons\/","title":{"rendered":"NCR: Archbishop of Milan to Take Part in \u2018Historic\u2019 Closed-Door Seminar With Italy\u2019s Freemasons"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The National Catholic Register<\/em> reported the following:<\/p>\n

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Archbishop of Milan to Take Part in \u2018Historic\u2019 Closed-Door Seminar With Italy\u2019s Freemasons<\/h2>\n

February 15, 2024<\/p>\n

MILAN \u2014 The Archbishop of Milan has surprised many Catholics with the news that he plans to take part in a seminar in the northern Italian city on Friday with the grand masters of Italy\u2019s three Freemasonic lodges, despite the Church\u2019s longstanding censure of Freemasonry.<\/p>\n

Archbishop Mario Delpini, Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, president emeritus of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts, and Bishop Antonio Staglian\u00f2, president of the Pontifical Academy of Theology, will be among Church representatives attending the closed-door event to discuss The Catholic Church and Freemasonry.<\/i><\/p>\n

The Freemasons will be represented by Stefano Bisi, grand master of the Grand Orient of Italy, the country\u2019s largest Freemasonic lodge, and leaders of two other national lodges: the Grand Lodge of Italy and the Grand Regular Lodge of Italy.<\/p>\n

Bisi has called the meeting \u201chistoric.\u201d\u00a0 …<\/p>\n

Pope Francis has occasionally been vocally critical of the secret society. Speaking in 2015 on a visit to Turin, a city well known for its ties to Freemasonry, he recalled that at the end of the 19th century \u201cFreemasonry was in full swing,\u201d helping to make it \u201cone of the ugliest times and the ugliest places in the history of Italy.\u201d In 2013, he criticized<\/a> the presence of \u201cMasonic lobbies\u201d within the Church.<\/p>\n

Masonry-Friendly Pontificate?<\/h3>\n

But this pontificate has also drawn noticeable approval from Italian lodges. This became especially apparent in 2020 when Francis\u2019s Human Fraternity document, co-signed with the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University, received a ringing endorsement<\/a> from Bisi\u2019s Grand Orient Lodge. The document, read an article in its quarterly magazine, was \u201cinnovative\u201d and a \u201cslow-release drug\u201d that could herald a \u201cnew era\u201d and represent a \u201cturning point for a new civilization.\u201d<\/p>\n

Freemasons in other parts of the world have also welcomed other initiatives of this pontificate, such as when Spanish Freemasons congratulated the Pope on his encyclical Fratelli Tutti<\/i><\/a> (Brothers All), saying the Church had finally embraced \u201cuniversal fraternity, the great principle of modern Freemasonry.\u201d By 2017, this pontificate had reportedly already received some 62 messages of public support<\/a> from various Freemasonic figures and lodges. …<\/p>\n

Significantly, Bisi said a dialogue between Freemasonry and the Church began in the 1960s, when the then-grand master of his lodge, Giordano Gamberini and his successor Lino Salvini, had exchanges with Pauline Father Rosario Esposito.<\/p>\n

\u201cMeetings, discussions … then stopped,\u201d Bisi said, but now \u201cthey can start again,\u201d and he recalled an open letter<\/a>, penned by Cardinal Ravasi and addressed to \u201cDear Brother Masons\u201d published on Feb. 14, 2016.<\/p>\n

The then-president of the Pontifical Council for Culture said the Church\u2019s declarations underlining Freemasonry\u2019s incompatibility with the faith \u201cdo not impede dialogue\u201d with Masonry on areas such as \u201cworks of charity, the fight against materialism, human dignity, and knowledge of each other.\u201d https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/archbishohp-delpini-freemasonry-seminar<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is something from the Freemason’s website announcing this meeting (https:\/\/www.grandeoriente.it\/chiesa-cattolica-e-massoneria-il-16-febbraio-seminario-a-milano-con-il-gran-maestro-bisi\/<\/a>), which I had machine-translated from Italian into English:<\/p>\n

On Friday 16 February in Milan, Grand Master Stefano Bisi will participate in the important seminar on “Catholic Church and Freemasonry”. <\/span>The event will take place in the headquarters of the Ambrosianum Cultural Foundation in the presence of important religious authorities such as the Archbishop of Milan Mario Delpini, the president of the Pontifical Academy of Theology Monsignor Francesco Stagliano’ and Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the legislative texts.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a meeting that can be defined as historic and in which the centuries-old and complex relationship between the Catholic Church and Freemasonry will be addressed. Grand Master Bisi will speak with a report on the topic “Freemasonry between Ratzinger and Bergoglio”. An important moment of dialogue that will allow religious people and Freemasons to freely discuss the reconcilability of Masonic values \u200b\u200bwith Catholic ones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, yes, the Freemasons and the Vatican, to a degree, want to cooperate with each other.<\/p>\n

Last November when the Vatican, in a letter again stated that Roman Catholics are not be become Freemasons, I noted:<\/p>\n

the wording of the Vatican’s letter does not prohibit cooperation with the Freemasons–and that is something that I believe the Vatican will, to a degree, continue to have–despite this latest letter. So, no this does NOT stop all future cooperation between the Vatican and the Freemasons. (Thiel B. Church of Rome prohibits its members from being Freemasons, but \u2026<\/a>\u00a0COGwriter, November 16, 2023)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Freemasonry, like the Vatican, is pushing a globalist agenda; hence cooperation, for a time, with the Church of Rome is expected, as both have some similar objectives.<\/p>\n

The Freemasons have the word “Free” in their name as centuries ago masons were allowed to freely cross national borders in order to build massive buildings. While modern Freemasons are rarely builders of massive monuments anymore, they kept the term “Free,” which seems to imply they are free to learn more about the practices, etc. of masonry. The Freemasons now claim to be the oldest, largest and most widely recognized fraternal organization in the world. Founded in London, England in 1717, its current worldwide membership totals 3.6 million members, 1.6 million of which are in North America. Historically, it and the Vatican have often not gotten along.<\/p>\n

Historically, there were some ties between the Freemasons and a group called the Illuminati in the 18th century. Some claim that the Freemasons are the Illuminati. Others believe that the Illuminati are like a subset of the Freemasons, whereas others feel that the Illuminati per se, no longer exist but that many of their ideas live on in Freemasonry.<\/p>\n

Now notice some past comments from Freemasons related to Roman Catholicism and Pope Francis:<\/p>\n

The fact: Freemasonry today is no more anti-Catholic than it is anti-vegetarian. … As an organization, however, Freemasonry takes no position whatsoever on any religion and in fact encourages toleration in all its members. http:\/\/www.masonicinfo.com\/anticatholic.htm accessed 10\/19\/18)<\/p>\n

On March 15, 2013, the website of the Virtual Grand Lodge of Italy, GLVDI<\/em>, published a statement (though dated March 13, 2013) of Grand Master Luciano Nistri concerning the election of the new pope:<\/p>\n

The Catholic Church has chosen as Pope the Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio who assumed the name of Francis. A clear-cut choice, away from the logic of the Roman Curia and of the temporal power. From the first moment on, Pope Francis, a man who comes \u201cnearly from the end of the world,\u201d rejecting the ermine robe and gold cross and replacing it with an iron cross, made his first tangible act. In his first words of greeting he fostered a desire for dialogue with the world and with mankind, nurturing the vivid hope for laymen and nonbelievers that change is underway. Maybe this is really what the world expects and what it expected. A new Church that knows how to reconnect love with truth in a confrontation among institutions not entrenched in the defense of their own power. It is that same hope for which the world \u2014 and especially Latin America, where the Masons Simon Bolivar, Salvador Allende and the same Giuseppe Garibaldi [especially while in Brazil] among the many who have given liberty to those peoples \u2014 has always longed for.<\/p>\n

A message that Freemasonry itself perceives a sharp break with the past and one which is turned now to listening to the poor, the marginalized and the weakest. To the new Pontiff we send our best wishes for his good work for years to come. Luciano Nistri, Grand Master GLVDI.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On September 21, 2013, moreover, during the celebrations by the Freemasonry of the Grand Orient of Italy on the occasion of the recurrence of the 20th of September and of the Fall Equinox, the Grand Master Gustavo Raffi stated, inter alia<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Pope Francis launches messages of humanity that are in tune with what we have been saying for years. He also invites people to come out of the catacombs and not to withdraw but to witness among the different peoples to one\u2019s own values [sic], in speaking to society. The reflections should not be limited to today but should build the future. This is a living Masonry, talking to people [in a dialogue].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In an interview published (but left undated) some time after his election in December 2013, Vincenzo Romano, 33\u00b0, the then-newly elected Deputy or Vicar Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Italy of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons \u2014 Piazza del Ges\u00f9 \u2014 Palazzo Vitelleschi, pointed out that Freemasonry does not follow the [Catholic] tenets and complained that the Church does not accept the way of thinking of the Masons. He then answered to the following question:<\/p>\n

\u201cPope Bergoglio has [already] made many openings; may there be something positive to be seen from him with regard to Freemasonry?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Mason replied:<\/p>\n

\u201cPope Bergoglio thus far proved to be a great Pope<\/strong>, but I do not know if he has some prejudice against us. Let\u2019s wait to see if there will be any reactions. We declare ourselves ready to embrace the Catholic world. (April 7, 2017 https:\/\/onepeterfive.com\/freemasons-love-pope-francis\/ accessed 08\/25\/18)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Bible tells of a coming time of international cooperation and a highly monitored economy that Freemasons and others seem to be unknowingly moving towards:<\/p>\n

1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. 2 Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. 3 And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast. 4 So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, \u201cWho is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?\u201d<\/p>\n

5 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. 6 Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. 7 It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. 8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. (Revelation 13:1-8)<\/p>\n

11 Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. 12 And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. 14 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived. 15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.<\/p>\n

18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. (Revelation 13:11-18)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A type of world government, that will come out of a warring power, will temporarily (42 months according to Revelation 13:5) have a lot of power and influence. It will try to have various economic plans but according to the Bible it will not be good nor end well (Revelation 18).<\/p>\n

Not that the globalists are attempting to fulfill those prophecies or think that what they are doing will be that harmful. Since few people believe that the solution to the problems of humankind is the coming Kingdom of God<\/a>, many look for various \u2018solutions\u2019 from ideas and government of human beings instead of God.<\/p>\n

Notice also the following:<\/p>\n

Writing in the Italian Catholic daily La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, <\/i>editor-in-chief Riccardo Cascioli noted<\/a> … for the Church, he said it has always been open to encounter anyone, but it is Freemasonry that has \u201calways regarded the Church with hostility,\u201d 02\/15\/24 https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/archbishohp-delpini-freemasonry-seminar<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I expect, in addition to future cooperation, future hostility from the Freemasons towards the Church of the Seven Hills of Rome.<\/p>\n

Here is something from my free online book Lost Tribes and Prophecies: What will happen to Australia, the British Isles, Canada, Europe, New Zealand and the United States of America?<\/a>–note also the section that I bolded<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

The World Worships the Beast<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Book of Revelation teaches:<\/p>\n

8<\/sup> All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. (Revelation 13:8)<\/p>\n

The \u201chim\u201d above is the Babylonian European Beast.<\/p>\n

The \u201cprince of the power of the air\u201d (Ephesians 2:2) has worked to set the stage for this Beast to have secular and religious supporters of various types.<\/p>\n

Secular organizations such as the World Economic Forum (WEF),[i]<\/a> United Nations,[ii]<\/a> and the Bilderberg Group[iii]<\/a> all support a type of a somewhat ecumenical-interfaith-merged religion, allowing for certain differences, yet possibly writing their own holy book with artificial intelligence! [iv]<\/a> They all promote what could be called a \u2018globalist\u2019 agenda, consistent with prophecies (e.g. Revelation 17:1-5).<\/p>\n

The European Union does as well, however, its view is that Europe should lead a coming \u201cnew world order.\u201d[v]<\/a><\/p>\n

In May of 2022, World Economic Forum\u2019s founder Klaus Schwab, who is German, said he wanted to make it \u201cclear\u201d \u2014 \u201cthe future is built by us.\u201d[vi]<\/a> And the WEF will work with others, like European politicians, to make that happen. WEF Chief Executive Philippe Donnet wrote related to global governance, \u201cThe world needs a leader. Europe should step up \u2026 Global leadership, especially in socioeconomic terms, could become the shared goal of European citizens.\u201d[vii]<\/a><\/p>\n

Furthermore, the WEF has wanted Roman Catholic involvement and Pope Francis has, at least twice, sent Klaus Schwab pro-WEF letters.[viii]<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2020 Prince Charles, now king Charles III, endorsed the WEF\u2019s globalist \u2018Great Reset\u201d agenda.[ix]<\/a> There are prophecies about some of the UK (Ephraim) calling out to Germany (Assyria) after the start of the Great Tribulation (cf. Hosea 5:13). It is likely that at least one or more members of the British royal family will do this, though it will not turn out as they would have hoped (cf. Hosea 5:13b, 11:5).<\/p>\n

Former German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, who has pushed for more European integration, has personally spoken at a WEF meeting a decade ago[x]<\/a> and was still listed as part of the WEF on its website in 2023.[xi]<\/a> Herr Guttenberg also has directly called for Europe to reorganize.[xii]<\/a><\/p>\n

The WEF has called its version of a reorganized world The Great Reset<\/em>.[xiii]<\/a> Many aspects of The Great Reset<\/em> align with a future the Bible warns against. In 2021, the WEF announced it would work with Big Tech and governments to be able to control and censor the internet[xiv]<\/a>\u2014such control would seem to contribute to the coming \u201cfamine of the word\u201d (Amos 8:11-12).<\/p>\n

In 2022, Klaus Schwab told the G20 (a group of the most influential\/powerful government leaders of the world) that he believed that \u201ca deep systemic and structural restructuring of our world\u201d was needed.[xv]<\/a> While a deep European restructuring will occur (cf. Revelation 17:12-13), it is scripturally warned against. In 2023 in a keynote speech at the World Government Summit, Klaus Schwab stated, \u201cI agree, artificial intelligence, but not only artificial intelligence, but also the metaverse, neospace technologies, and I could go on and on \u2026 And, who masters those technologies, in some way, will be the master of the world\u201d[xvi]<\/a>\u2013and that is basically what he called for. Bible prophecy points to computer technologies to be used by the coming Beast power (cf. Revelation 13:16-18).<\/p>\n

On the opening day of the WEF meeting in Davos, Switzerland in 2023, Klaus Schwab called for his supporters to \u201cmaster the future,\u201d[xvii]<\/a> which looks to be directed towards globalist totalitarianism. On the closing day of that conference \u201cTanja Fajon, Slovenia\u2019s minister of foreign affairs, complained about countries placing their own sovereignty over the interests of the \u2018world order,\u2019 \u201c [xviii]<\/a> (the loss of national sovereignty will happen at least in Europe according to prophecies such as Revelation 17:12-13).<\/p>\n

Another 2023 WEF Davos speaker, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (Pakistan\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs) stated shortly after Tanja Fajon, \u201cHere at WEF\u2026there\u2019s a lot of discussion about what the new world order will be\u2026\u201d and he also stated that that they needed to continue working towards, \u201cbuilding this new world order.\u201d [xix]<\/a> Having watched the video clip of this, Bilawal Zardari also looked to be calling for something consistent with the final time of the Gentiles (Ezekiel 30:3). By not appreciating warnings contained in biblical prophecies, many are pushing in a direction that will end in death and destruction that the Bible says to flee from (cf. Revelation 18:2-19).<\/p>\n

It needs to be pointed out that this book is not asserting that the United Nations, World Economic Forum, Freemasons, Bilderberg Group, etc. cannot do anything good. They do have many positive goals, yet also some goals that are opposed by scripture. Despite the good, the Bible warns:<\/p>\n

1<\/sup> Unless the Lord builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; (Psalm 127:1)<\/p>\n

And, since these groups do not promote the supremacy of the God of the Bible, they, in that sense, labor in vain.<\/p>\n

Related to goals of the New Age movement, consider the following:<\/p>\n

A number of fundamental beliefs are held by many New Age\u00a0followers\u2026<\/p>\n