{"id":707,"date":"2025-01-25T13:34:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T14:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/?p=707"},"modified":"2025-01-25T15:25:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T15:25:59","slug":"biden-joins-black-freemasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/biden-joins-black-freemasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden joins black Freemasons"},"content":{"rendered":"

The former US president could technically be excommunicated from the Catholic Church for becoming a Master Mason<\/strong><\/p>\n

Former US President Joe Biden, a self-professed Catholic, has joined an African-American Masonic lodge as a \u2018Master Mason\u2019. The Vatican takes a dim view of Freemasonry, and Catholics who join the fraternal order face excommunication.<\/p>\n

Biden was inducted into the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge in South Carolina on Sunday, one day before he left office. In a private ceremony, the lodge\u2019s grand master, Victor C. Major, granted Biden \u201cMaster Mason membership with full honors,\u201d<\/em> according to a statement published by the organization last weekend that circulated online on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201dTo be a Freemason is to be part of a brotherhood dedicated to personal growth, service to others, and the pursuit of knowledge and truth,\u201d<\/em> the lodge wrote. Biden\u2019s service, the statement added, \u201creflects the core values\u201d<\/em> of this brotherhood.<\/p>\n

Although its origins stretch back to the 15th century, modern Freemasonry developed in Britain in the early 1700s and quickly grew into a Europe- and US-wide fraternity for philosophers, religious dissidents, occultists, and the business and political elite. Some 14 US presidents, including George Washington, were Freemasons.<\/p>\n

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Prince Hall Masonry is a historically black sect of Freemasonry founded in 1775 by a freed slave in Boston.<\/p>\n

Biden has not publicly acknowledged joining the ranks of the Prince Hall Masons. However, his membership in the organization stands at odds with his Catholic faith.<\/p>\n

Pope Clement XII forbade Catholics from practicing Freemasonry in 1738, and this papal ban remained in place until 1983, when the Vatican issued a new order banning membership in organizations that \u201cplot against the Church.\u201d<\/em> While the new order did not explicitly name Freemasonry, it maintained excommunication as a potential punishment for Catholics who join such organizations.<\/p>\n

\u201dThe faithful who enroll in Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion,\u201d<\/em> Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who would go on to become Pope, declared at the time.<\/p>\n

Throughout his political life, Biden has sometimes embraced political positions that contradict his faith. Back in 2021, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops drafted a document that would have forbidden Biden from receiving Holy Communion over his pro-abortion views. After Pope Francis declared Biden a \u201cgood Catholic,\u201d<\/em> and said that he should continue receiving Communion, the document was revised to state that Catholic politicians have a \u201cspecial responsibility to embody Church teaching in their service of the common good.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The former US president could technically be excommunicated from the Catholic Church for becoming a Master Mason Former US President Joe Biden, a self-professed Catholic, has joined an African-American Masonic lodge as a \u2018Master Mason\u2019. The Vatican takes a dim view of Freemasonry, and Catholics who join the fraternal order face excommunication. Biden was inducted…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}