Former US President Joe Biden says he is a Catholic – but many people in the know beg to differ.
On his way out of power old Joe Biden is involved in yet another controversy for joining a Masonic Lodge.
But is that problematic? Yes.
Current canonical laws of the Catholic Church consider joining a Masonic lodge a grave sin.
And while it does not automatically result in excommunication anymore, the faithful is urged to renounce their membership.
If they fail to do so, they may be subject to canonical penalties that can go as far as an excommunication.
Cafeteria Catholic Biden joined a historically black Freemason lodge just one day before he left the presidency.
The self-styled Catholic Joe Biden, who supports partial-birth abortion, i.e. infanticide, and who even before Obama supported gender ideology and celebrated the “marriage” of two men, is not Catholic. Period. https://t.co/xwtAFtXdZl @RepMTG
— Archbishop Viganò (Quotes) (@ArchbpVigano) January 1, 2023
Daily Caller reported:
“Biden was conferred with “Master Mason membership” and “full honors” on Jan. 19 at the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of South Carolina, according to the Conference of Grand Masters announcement. Joining the Freemasons as a Catholic forbids an individual from receiving communion, with the potential for excommunication, according to canon law of the Catholic Church.
‘Herefore, be it resolved, that I, 27th Most Worshipful Grand Master, Victor C. Major, on behalf of the members of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of South Carolina, hereby confer membership upon President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. in recognition of his outstanding service to the United States of America’, the statement reads.”
Parish Hall Freemasonry is a ‘historically black’ sect of Freemasonry founded in 1775 by freed African slaves.
According to Freemasons, Biden is now the 16th president in American history to join a Lodge.
“Before a revision in 1983, the Catholic Church prescribed automatic excommunication to anyone who joined the Freemasons, according to the canon law. However, the revision does not mention the organization by name and instead bars an individual from receiving communion or otherwise punishes someone “who joins an association which plots against the Church,” according to current canon law.”
This is not the first time that there’s calls for the excomuncation of Biden. From April 2024:
Viganò wrote in LifeSiteNews:
“The unprecedented and scandalous proclamation of March 31 as “Transgender Visibility Day” by self-styled U.S. President Joe Biden – who dares to declare himself a Catholic – constitutes a most serious offense to God and to millions of Catholics and Christians in America and around the world, before which it is impossible not to react with due firmness.
I urge American citizens and their representatives in government to recognize the total unworthiness of Joe Biden to hold an institutional position, which it is well known that he used fraudulent and manipulative action to achieve in the 2020 presidential election. I ask my brethren in the episcopate and priests to recognize that Joe Biden has incurred latæ sententiæ excommunication, and as such must be expelled from the churches and not admitted to Communion. I call on Catholics and all Christians to pray that, on this solemn Easter Day, the Risen Lord will have mercy on the United States of America and put an end to the onslaught of the infernal forces unleashed today more than ever before.”
Read more:
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò Issues Statement Criticizing Joe Biden’s Scandalous Proclamation of March 31 as ‘Transgender Visibility Day’
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