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Why do Freemasons love Pope Francis? The accomplishment of what Freemasonry planned in the 19th Century

Some Preliminary Comments on Freemasonry and the Catholic Church A Pope According to Our WantsThat which we ought to demand, that which we should seek and expect, as the Jews expected the Messiah, …More
Some Preliminary Comments on Freemasonry and the Catholic Church
A Pope According to Our Wants

That which we ought to demand, that which we should seek and expect, as the Jews expected the Messiah, is a Pope according to our wants. Alexander VI, with all his private crimes, would not suit us, for he never erred in religious matters. Clement XIV, on the contrary, would suit us from head to toe.”
(From the Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita, section XIX, 1st half of the 19th century — emphasis added).
As the late books.google.com/…/The_Permanent_I…, then the editor of Catholic Family News explained, the “Alta Vendita was the highest lodge of the Carbonari, an Italian secret society with links to Freemasonry and which, along with Freemasonry, was condemned by the Catholic Church.”
Thus this quote from the Alta Vendita gives us an idea of what some Freemasons had historically been looking for with regard to the Pope of the Catholic Church. In 1861, Jacques Crétinau-Joly published …More
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Simple. Freemasons like those who further their cause, even if they are not a member.