re: All Freemasons, Shriners Check In Thread

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Masonry is not a 'secret' organization! My Lodge meets the second Saturday night of the month, in the Lodge room located above a local Baptist Church. Notices of said meetings are sometimes placed in local newspapers as a reminder to members. So much for it being a secret organization.

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dates and times are not the secret that Catholicism had a problem with

IIRC it was the secret rituals that some Catholics deemed may be Pagan or Satanic...and since they did not know what the secret rituals were or what they meant, they tried to protect "the flock" and decided you could not be part of this organization and be a Catholic.