(This story has been modified due to breaking news in which Governor Pataki suddenly cancelled his scheduled June initiation.)

Update: Governor Pataki backs out of joining the Freemasons

On  Monday, May 19th, the online edition of the New York Post, in an article entitled  "Gov Mason Erasin',"reported: "Fearing he would commit "a grave sin" in the eyes of the Catholic Church, Gov. Pataki has canceled his plan to join the Masons, The Post has learned." The below featured story, first posted on May 16th, was initially called "George Pataki: Master Mason," but has now been re-titled to reflect the latest development. Our article was based on the Hoffman Lodge 412 webiste's January 7th announcement  that Governor Pataki had accepted an invitation to join the Masons. According to the Post's article, this was more recently reaffirmed: "A May 13 notice on the New York Mason's Web site is headlined 'Gov. George Pataki to become a Mason.'" Our article will be revised as soon as possible to indicate his change of plans. We congratulate Gov. Pataki for making the right choice and also all New York Catholics who contacted his office to voice their disapproval. We will also be closely watching for any response from the Masons, which will be given a thorough analysis.   (See our Latest News and Analysis page for the complete Post article and another report.)

George Pataki: (Almost) a Master Mason (he accepted, then declined)
"Good" Catholic Boy Grows up to be Governor . . .
and ALMOST a Master Mason

What follows is this feature story as it was originally written a few days ago -- with a few modifications due to the breaking news. The original article was written after the Masons had announced that Pataki had accepted their invitation to join their secret society, and the date of inducation had been announced. The original article was entitled: George Pataki: Master Mason; and subtitled: 'Good' Catholic boy grows up to be Governor . . . and a Master Mason. While Pataki pulled back fearing he would commit a grave sin, and while the Vatican in this case has issued a clear statement reaffirming the Church's centuries old prohibition against Catholics joining the freemasons, --  the basic premise of the below story still stands: thousands upon thousands of Catholic laymen have quietly been given permission to join the freemasons since Vatican Council II. In Pataki's case, the public furor which hit his office after his induction date into the Masons was publicly announced

Governor George Pataki was well on his way to becoming a Master Mason—but came to his senses before taking that fateful plunge!

The nearby picture shows, left to riight: R:.W:.Kurt Ott, Grand Master Most Worshipful Carl J. Fitje, Governor George E. Pataki and W:. William Hetxler. Ott and Fitje are proudly displaying their masonic aprons. You can access the original story at http://www.hoffmanlodge412.org/news.htm
Once there, scroll down to the January 7, 2003 article.

In a letter appearing in a January 7, 2003 article on the Masonic Hoffman Lodge 412 website, the "Most Worshipful" M:.W:.Carl J. Fitje writes to his fellow masons:

Brethren:
I have the distinct pleasure to announce that our Governor, the Honorable George E. Pataki, has accepted my offer to join our fraternity and become a Master Mason.

On the cover of the next issue of the EMPIRE STATE MASON will feature him accepting my invitation at our meeting on June 6, 2002. Pictured also will be Brother Kurt Ott, Convention Chairman and Brother William Hetzler, both members of Schiller Lodge in the 9th Manhattan District. Brother William Hetzler is also the Assistant to the Governor for German Affairs and it was through his effort that the meeting was arranged and the Governor agreed to be a member of our beloved fraternity. . . .

I will be sending a special announcement to all lodges and expect maximum attendance to witness this historic event, the likes of which has not taken place in the last 133 years in New York. After his initiation there will be a public ceremony at Grand Lodge, to which the press will be invited, to announce that the Governor has been made a Mason. (End of quote from "Most Worshipful" Carl J. Fitje.)

In our feature story for 5-03-03 on Bill Bennett, the New Gambler, these lines appeared:

Question: Bill Bennett, have you joined the Freemasons? Counterfeit church operatives like the late "Cardinal" Joseph Bernardin gave key leaders throughout the Catholic world "permission" to join the diabolical cult of Freemasonry—were you one of those who did so?

Today's feature story proves that this question was not an idle or tangential challenge.

Want to see the blood-curdling oath that Master Masons take when they go through the secret portion of the initiation? After swearing to keep all the secrets of the order, he intones that if he violates his masonic oath he will be subjected to:

". . . no less penalty than that of having my body severed in twain, my bowels taken from thence and burned to ashes. and this scattered by the four winds of heaven, that no more remembrance may be had among men or Masons of so vile a wretch as I should be, should I...violate...my Master Mason's obligation...."

Good job, George. Very edifying. To see the oaths taken by those entering the first three levels of masonry, click here. . . . And, George, -- in any case -- why are you lending credibility to an organization which requires their initiates to take such oaths?

Real News 24/7 seeks to deal in news and commentary of interest to every American. Why should anyone care about this story?

Everyone should listen up -- because this development is not an isolated case -- it is a telling indicator of the reality that since the era of Vatican Council II (1962-1965) there has been a dramatic change in the character of the men sitting in the positions of authority inside the structures of the Roman Catholic Church -- both here in the USA and in the Vatican.

Everyone is now familiar with the horrendous pedophile scandal which has been highlighted in the major media in the last few years, but the homosexual-pedophilia is a symptom of the subversion that has been going on within the structures of the Church for four decades.

About a decade ago the Wanderer, the Remnant, and other conservative Catholic papers reported on an article in the (now defunct) Mt. Washington Press (Cincinnati) by reporter Greg Flannery. Flannery broke the story that Archbishop Daniel Pilarcyk was sending his seminarians to a psychologist who as a freemason -- to see if they were fit for the priesthood! There are reams of anecdotal stories indicating seminaries in the USA have been trying to weed out orthodox leaning candidates in favor of homo-friendly and modernist candidates who would fit in with the "New Church." Michael Rose compiled a mountain of such evidence in his book, Good Bye, Good Men; the subtitle is How Catholic seminaries turned away two generations of vocations from the priesthood. Read an article about Good Bye, Good Men from NewsMax here.

Turned away two generations of vocations to the Catholic priesthood??? This sounds like more than just a case of bad management. And many suspect it is. A growing debates rages among the best informed Catholics as to how bad the subversion is. Serious and well informed observers are divided.

For instance, the Wanderer, the Remnant, Catholic Family News, Catholics United for the Faith, the Society of Pius X, Fr. Nicholas Gruner (Fatima Crusader), author Solange Hertz, and Fr. James Wathen (author of The Great Sacrilege) are representative of those who hold a variation of the conclusion that the last three occupants of the Papal Chair -- Paul VI (1963-1978), John Paul I (1978-1978), and John Paul II (1978 to present) are true Popes who have been surrounded by modernists, liberals and subversives, and are constrained by circumstances from dealing with the decay engulfing the Church. Some of the above hold that these Popes themselves have had very liberal and even modernist tendencies, or even have been involved in the subversion themselves.

Another camp holds that something happened after the death of Pius XII in 1958 which has resulted in a string of anti-Popes, who have in effect installed counterfeit Bishops worldwide -- resulting in a counterfeit church now occupying the structures of the Roman Catholic Church. Under this scenario, the subversion now evident everywhere is not accidentaly, but deliberate. The now defunct quarterly Sacerdotium, edited then by Fr. Donald Sanborn, the late Fr. Francis Fenton, the late Fr. Joaquin Saenz, authors Hutton Gibson, Patrick Henry Omlor, John Daly, and writer John Lane of Australia have been articulate spokesmen for this camp.

(Aside: about 15 years ago a series of about seven articles by portrait artist and writer Gary Giuffre of Texas appeared in several obscure newsletters, attempting to explain how the 1958 conclave was subverted by top agents of freemasonry, preventing Cardinal Joseph Siri from assuming the Chair of Peter, and instead placing their agent, Angelo Roncalli who took the name John XXIII [1958-1963], in control of the structures of the Church. This has been the only attempt to offer some explanation of the abrupt and dramatic change in orientation which took place circa 1958. The interesting thing is, despite the initial circulation of only about 800 newsletters, coupled with a lack of follow up by anyone in the last fifteen years, these articles have made their way around the world several times, and you can hardly find a serious Catholic observer who hasn't at least heard of the "Siri Research." )  

Both sides referenced above can cite ample historical precedents to support their position. On the one hand, corruption in the Church, going back to Judas the Apostle (hand-picked by Christ Himself), and even among Popes, has been rampant in many periods of Church history. On the other hand, anti-Popes have occupied the Vatican around 39 times in the last 2000 years. It must be stated in this connection that, at least up until 1958, there has never in history been an anti-Pope occupying the Vatican for any length of time without a true Pope publicly challenging the usurper.

In either case, the faithful and the world are faced with the eclipse of the moral authority of the Roman Catholic Church in our time -- and this has been the key factor in the precipitous cultural decline here in the USA and around the world. THIS IS THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY IN THIS RECENT NEWS ABOUT PATAKI JOINING THE MASONS.

The publication Veritas (with the Shillelagh) made the case in one of its issues that the entire public life of the USA in many ways resembled de facto a Catholic culture as regards public morality (i.e. Legion of Decency and restraint on Hollywood immorality) up until the late 1950s. After Pope Pius XII (1939-1958) died in 1958, the Vatican was neutralized -- and then the current decline into pagan-like standards began, picking up momentum as it went.

In such books as America: To Pray or not to Pray by David Barton (1994) graphs have been produced showing the dramatic decline in America's morality since the early sixties. Barton and others have tried to explain this collapse as a consequence of the Supreme Court's taking prayer out of public schools in 1962.  In fact, the Supreme Court would not have dared take prayer out of public schools if the Ruling Elite of Judeo-Masonry was not confident that the Catholic Church had been neutralized -- and would not react.

This same reality holds the key to understanding why Hollywood was allowed to run wild at that same time period, why ten years later abortion was "legalized", why no Catholic politician (such as Ted Kennedy or Mario Cuomo is ever anathematized or excommunicated for supporting such moral turpitude, and so on.

The The Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita is a document which was uncovered in 1846 when Italian police raided a masonic lodge during an out of control "party." Pope Pius IX (1846-1878) commissioned Maurice Cretineau-Joly to translate the document into several languages so that it could be made public, which it was in Cretineua-Joly's book, The Roman Church and Revolution, given official approbation by Pius IX in 1861. The full text of the Alta Vendita is also found in Msgr. George Dillon's book, Grand Orient Freemasonry Unmasked, which eventually was published with a blockbuster introduction by Fr. Denis Fahey.

Part of the Alta Vendita said the following, hinting at the Jewish Hidden Hand behind freemasonry:

The task that we are going to undertake is not the work of a day, or of a month, or of a year; it may last several years, perhaps a century; but in our ranks the soldier dies and the struggle goes on. . . . You wish to establish the reign of the chosen ones on the throne of the prostitute of Babylon [editor's note: the whole document makes clear they are referring here to the Chair of Peter], let the Clergy march under your standard, always believing that they are marching under the banner of the apostolic Keys.

Many alert Catholics are anywhere from concerned to certain that we are watching the fulfillment of the instruction of the Alta Vendita, and it is this explains all that we are covering in this article.

(Pictorial Aside: Below, click on the PICTORIAL link at the bottom of this article to find: 1) two pictures of a Roman Catholic Church altar in the mid-50s, under Pope Pius XII, before the Vatican II era; 2) two pictures of the sanctuary in a Masonic temple; 3) How Roman Catholic Churches sanctuaries look now -- after Vatican II; 4) An Anglican Church sanctuary; 5) two pictures of the UN, the main hall and the UN Meditation Room.)

Before the Vatican II era, it was the clear teaching of Church authorities that it was a mortal sin, with the penalty of excommunication, for any man to join the masons. This was in the 1917 code of canon law -- but removed from 1983 "revision." See the confirmation of this assertion, plus the typical weasel worded explanation, universal with "New Church" bishops, by Cardinal Mahoney's spokesman dated September 15, 2000. You will notice that this letter comes down -- eventually -- firmly on the side of allowing Catholic laymen to join the masons on a "case by case" basis.

It is asserted in the above referenced Mahoney letter that the Vatican still forbids membership in the masonic secret societies. Really? Then why have the Cardinal Mahoneys, the Cardinal Bernardins, and the Bishop Weaklands been appointed EVERYWHERE, and kept in power EVERYWHERE -- for the last 30 years? Real News 24/7 challenges even ONE man sitting in a Bishop's chair in the USA to issue a clear statement that he universally forbids Catholic laymen to join the secret society of freemasons.

(Aside: Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska did excommunicate Catholics belonging to the Freemasons in his diocese in early 1996 -- but -- BUT -- since he also attempted to excommunicate Catholics who were attending the pre-Vatican II Mass on the same day -- we at Real News 24/7 suspect that Bruskewitz HIMSELF may be a mason; what greater mocking of the Church could there be than for a secret freemason in a Bishop's chair -- 4 decades after the neutralization of the Vatican -- than to abuse authority by excommunicating Catholics in the Freemasons and Catholics attending the pre-Vatican II Mass on the same day? Read an article about Bishop Bruskewitz's flurry of excommunications here. Also, the excellent editor of Catholic Family News, John Vennari has written an article about the antics in the diocese of Bishop Bruskewitz which you can read here.)

As stated above and is known to all concerned Catholic laymen, traitor Catholics like Governor George Pataki of New York are openly pro-abortion, but are neither disciplined nor excommunicated by the men occupying the bishops' chairs. What is not so clear, even now, to most -- is that the Pataki types are craven slaves to the entire Zionist-Masonic agenda, and support it unstintingly when called upon to do so. (The B'nai B'rith Lodge is the Jewish Masonic arm of Freemasonry, and many investigators claim it stands above all the others. it is true that every Masonic lodge of note has a miniature replication of the Temple of Solomon. The goal, known or unknown to the average Mason, is for the Masons to help the Zionists re-build the Temple of Solomon.)

Since the Pataki's are not censured in any way, let's go further: how many of the men in the Bishops' chairs themselves have become members of the freemasons? Let's go a step further: is it now a REQUIREMENT to be appointed to a bishop's chair in the USA to become a member of the freemasons? . . . This is not a stupid or outrageous question. SOMETHING must account for the total abdication of responsibility, the total abandonment of Catholic principles (as practiced pre-1958) by those sitting in authority today.

In the 1980s, reporter Gregory Flannery wrote an article in the Mt. Washington Press (now defunct) revealing that Archbishop Daniel Pilarcyk was forcing all seminarians in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati to go to a freemasonic psychiatrist to be screened for their "fitness for the priesthood." Clearly, this was to insure that anyone who might have a traditional orientation would be weeded out; in other words, no one was to be allowed to stay who was not acceptable to the masonic "New Church" mentality. Or does anyone have another explanation?

Freemasonry has been around for centuries. It is the tool that the Rothschild (and related) international banking establishments have used to lure Christian men into their program. Freemasonry has offered worldly advantages to Christian men, in return for taking their diabolical oaths, and basically supporting a program which sells out their country, their religion, and their civilization for the Judeo-Masonic program that we now see galloping towards fruition with little public opposition.

(Aside: Most grassroots Masons do not consciously grasp the implications of the organization they belong to -- but they need to wake up. In his 1923 book, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, officially sold and sanctioned by masonic book stores for the last 80 years, 33rd degree mason Manley P. Hall (pictured at left) asserts the Luciferian doctrine on page 48:

When the Mason learns that the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mystery of his craft. The seething energies of Lucifer are in his hands and before he may step onwards and upwards he must prove his ability to properly apply (this) energy.

Manly Palmer Hall is not the only officially recognized Masonic writer to publicly assert the Luciferian nature of freemasonry. Albert Pike also does so in Morals and Dogma, universally recognized as a Masonic mainstay. No section or lodge of Freemasonry has ever disavowed either of these books which, to repeat, have been sold for decades and decades through official masonic book outlets.

Earlier in this article we referenced the diabolical oaths taken by every freemason. These oaths are immoral, as Fr. Denis Fahey explains in his book The Mystical Body of Christ and the Reorganization of Society, men are asked to swear under pain of death to protect secrets they have not yet been told, to support goals of which they are unaware, and to follow leaders whose identity they do not know. (For instance, George Pataki does not know who the world leader of freemasons is, and neither does any other mason.)

Incidentally, why does the masonic society need secrets? Because if the vile, ultimate goals of freemasonry were divulged to the lower level patsies who join and pay large yearly membership fees -- very few would join in the first place.

As the French priest Abbe de Nantes has stated (paraphrase): Why does Freemasonry wear a mask? It is to hide an uglier face." That uglier face is the entire shadow government of Judeo-Masonry with all the evil fruits we see today from 28% plus usury, to 43 million abortions in the last 30 years, to the ongoing energetic attempts to provoke needless wars to expand Israel's territory and to move the USA towards a police state.

All this might be laughed off as a sick joke, except that the Masonic order is worldwide and it is not only powerful, but arguably the dominant power. For instance, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Colin Powell are all masons. They all belong to the black lodges, the Prince Hall Lodge. The black lodges? Yes, in masonry there is a strict segregation of races. All blacks are restricted to the Prince Hall lodges. How powerful must masonry be if this is the one area of life in the USA that members Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton do not ask for integration?

Nor will you see Jewish feminists like Gloria Allred, or Patricia Ireland, demanding that women be admitted to the Masonic lodges. This is the one exclusively male arena which they know well enough not to challenge, or more accurately, which they are pleased with, because freemasonry serves the main and overriding goal which they and their organizations are working for: to stamp out Christian influence everywhere and replace it with Jewish supremacy.

All of which points to why:

Instead of real leaders, who have been assassinated or kept down over recent decades, we get Walking Pukes like George Pataki, whose only qualification among men with political skills is that he has sold out to the forces of evil, such as freemasonry.

In conclusion, for the true teaching of the Catholic Church on freemasonry, let's hear from Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) in his 1884 encyclical, Humanum Genus:

At this period, however, the partisans of evil seems to be combining together, and to be struggling with united vehemence, led on or assisted by that strongly organized and widespread association called the Freemasons. No longer making any secret of their purposes, they are now boldly rising up against God Himself. They are planning the destruction of holy Church publicly and openly, and this with the set purpose of utterly despoiling the nations of Christendom, if it were possible, of the blessings obtained for us through Jesus Christ our Savior. . . . It is now Our intention, following the example of Our predecessors, directly to treat of the masonic society itself, of its whole teaching, of its aims, and of its manner of thinking and acting, in order to bring more and more into the light its power for evil, and to do what We can to arrest the contagion of this fatal plague.  . . .

There are several organized bodies which, though differing in name, in ceremonies, in form and origin, are nevertheless so bound together by community of purpose and by the similarity of their main opinions, as to make in fact one thing with the sect of the Freemasons, which is a kind of center whence they all go forth, and whither they all return. Now, these no longer show a desire to remain concealed; for they hold their meetings in the daylight and before the public eye, and publish their own newspaper organs; and yet, when thoroughly understood, they are found still to retain the nature and the habits of secret societies. There are many things like mysteries which it is the fixed rule to hide with extreme care, not only from strangers, but from very many members, also; such as their secret and final designs, the names of the chief leaders, and certain secret and inner meetings, as well as their decisions, and the ways and means of carrying them out.

Now that was a Pope speaking, those are words with the ring of authority, and in those days no one was wondering what was going on in the Vatican.

And in those days, a prominent Catholic Governor who publicly joined the freemasons would have been publicly excommunicated by now.

And perhaps Pope Leo XIII was warning us a century early of what has by now transpired, i.e., the at least de facto takeover of the machinery of the Church, when he wrote the following in the original Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel, which appeared in the Raccolta in 1888:

In the Holy Place itself, where has been set up the See of the most holy Peter and the Chair of Truth for the light of the world, they have raised the throne of their abominable impiety, with the iniquitous design that when the Pastor has been struck, the sheep may be scattered. (end of quote from Pope Leo XIII)
 

In the Encyclical Humanum Genus (1884), Leo XIII also called upon Catholic leaders to "tear off the mask from Freemasonry and make plain to all what it really is." The induction of George Pataki into the Masonic lodge provides an opportunity for all of us to help do just that.

Click here to see the Pictorial Comparing a traditional Catholic altar (pre-1958) -- with the inside of a Masonic Temple -- with the inside of a Novus Ordo (New Mass) Catholic Church today -- with the inside of an Anglican church -- with the United Nations Meditation Room, and the UN Assembly Hall when Paul VI spoke there in 1964.
 

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