Leaked Letters: "No Penalty" For Freemasons Catholics
The first letter is from the Grand Master Stephen Michalak, a "Catholic," who in July 2016 asked for a pathway for Freemasons to a full participation in the sacramental life of the Church.
Michalak received a July 2017 reply (article’s picture) from Father Stephen Hackett, the Secretary of the Australian Bishops’ Conference.
Referring to consultations with different Bishops’ Commissions, Father Hackett claims that a membership in Freemasonry should be dealt with on the level of the local parish.
He even writes that a - so far unknown - 1984 "Catholic directive" determines that “no penalty attaches to Catholic membership of the Masonic order.”
In truth, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declared in 1983 that freemasonry is incompatibility with the Faith and that “no local ecclesiastical authority has the competence to derogate” from the negative judgments on freemasonry.
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