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To a correspondent who signe him self “A Catholic Freemason, Fr. Hull, 3.J., editor of the ‘Examiner,’ Bombay, says: ‘You might as well sign yourself i n Catholic Swedenborgian: or *Ca tholic Christian Scientist. You may have been born and baptised a Catho lic, and may still believe in the Ca tholic Church and ito doctrines. But 50 long as YOU are a Freemason you are cut off and disowned by your own Church No Bishop, priest, or how can all the world over, from the Pope downwards, will acknowledge you as a member of the Church. You may attend Mass and Benediction still, and no one will turn you out. But if you go to confession, no priest will or can give you absolution; and if you approach the altar, no priest can or will (knowingly) give you the Holy Sacrament. Nor will any priest celebrate your marriage for you, or give you extreme motion, until you have resigned your membership of the erat, and confessed your sin of dis obedience, and made yourself ever re pentant for reconciliation with Mother Church You may resent this; you may think It all wrong. But you can not gather the fact that you are no longer C Catholic in the eyes of the Church to whom you profess allegi ance—nor will be so long as you ap pend ‘Freemagon’ to your name.”
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Melbourne Advocate
Melbourne, Victoria, AU
Sat, Apr 06, 1907
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