Biden joins black Freemasons

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Biden joins black Freemasons
The former US president could technically be excommunicated from the Catholic Church for becoming a Master Mason
https://www.rt.com/news/611621-biden-joins-black-freemasons/

Former US President Joe Biden, a self-professed Catholic, has joined an African-American Masonic lodge as a 'Master Mason'. The Vatican takes a dim view of Freemasonry, and Catholics who join the fraternal order face excommunication.

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's grand master, Victor C. Major, granted Biden "Master Mason membership with full honors," according to a statement published by the organization last weekend that circulated online on Friday.

"To be a Freemason is to be part of a brotherhood dedicated to personal growth, service to others, and the pursuit of knowledge and truth," the lodge wrote. Biden's service, the statement added, "reflects the core values" of this brotherhood.

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.

Prince Hall Masonry is a historically black sect of Freemasonry founded in 1775 by a freed slave in Boston.

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.

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 "plot against the Church." While the new order did not explicitly name Freemasonry, it maintained excommunication as a potential punishment for Catholics who join such organizations.

"The faithful who enroll in Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion," Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who would go on to become Pope, declared at the time.

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 "good Catholic," and said that he should continue receiving Communion, the document was revised to state that Catholic politicians have a "special responsibility to embody Church teaching in their service of the common good."

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"A Remarkable Connection of Freemasonry and Israel
Freemasonry & Modern Israel
Howard Bliman, MD
22 February 2018

In May of 1915, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill asked a world-famous chemist, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, to find a way to dramatically increase Great Britain's production of acetone, a key ingredient for munitions during the First World War. After two years, Weizmann delivered, and Britain's wartime production of acetone increased a hundredfold. Grateful to Weizmann for his valuable contribution to the war effort, Churchill agreed to persuade British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to actively support the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.

On November 2, 1917, Balfour wrote a momentous letter to the most influential Jewish leader in Britain, Lord Walter Rothschild. This letter which began, "His Majesty's Government views with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people," became the legal basis for the partition of Palestine and establishment of a Jewish state.

On November 19,1947, right before an important vote in the United Nations on the partition of Palestine, Weizmann flew to Washington, D.C. to lobby American President Harry Truman. After a brief meeting, Weizmann persuaded a conflicted Truman to support the establishment of a Jewish state, and Truman proceeded to pull out all the stops, and heavily lobbied numerous delegates to ensure that the resolution favoring partition received enough votes to pass.

On November 29, 1947, with a vote of 33 in favor, 10 against, and 13 abstentions, UN Resolution 181 became the international basis for the establishment of the modern state of Israel.

On May 14, 1948, the Jewish Agency for Palestine led by David Ben Gurion declared the establishment of the state of Israel, and Truman recognized the new country within minutes of the announcement. The next day, the British Mandate expired and modern Israel was born. Against all odds and despite more threats on its life than any country in modern history, Israel survives and thrives into its seventh decade.

David Ben Gurion became its first prime minister and Chaim Weizmann its first president. The men pictured on this slide played a pivotal role in the history of modern Israel; all save one were Freemasons!"

https://conejomasons.org/events/news/a-remarkable-connection-of-freemasonry-and-israel/