A Spanish Masonic organization thanked the Pope for his stance on interreligious dialogue. “All the Freemasons of the world join the Pope's request for 'fraternity between people of different religions'”.
The Spanish Freemasonry, applauding what has been done so far by Bergoglio to protect and nurture interreligious dialogue, it was quite explicit.
To report the news, among others, it was the Vatican correspondent Aldo Maria Valli.
Some people were taken aback, but the move could also be interpreted as a provocation. The fact is that an Iberian Masonic organization, rightly or wrongly, seems to think like the Argentine pontiff in materia d’ecumenism. The Gran Logia de Espana praised the homily that the Holy Father gave for the Nativity: “Pope Francis – we read in the text in question – he called for the triumph of universal brotherhood among all human beings: “My wish for a Merry Christmas – the former archbishop of Buenos Aires had said – it is a wish for brotherhood. Fraternity between people of every nation and culture. Fraternity between people of different ideas, but capable of respecting each other and listening to others. Fraternity between people of different religions”. He Dad, Therefore, he was referring to religious pacification, but also to multiculturalism. A call that Spanish Freemasonry seems to share in its entirety. But there's more.
 
The pontiff's words would distance themselves, Like this, from a certain consolidated practice: Bergoglio would have marked a divide between the direct condemnation of Freemasonry, that the Catholic Church he uttered at an unsuspecting time, and the current vision of things. The various positions that the popes have taken over the years would have been overcome. Difficile, to the state of things, understand what he thinks Vatican of this unexpected applause. What is certain is that the pope's critics could use the story to argue that Catholicism is moving away, once again, from its traditional dictates.
Aldo Maria Valli did not hide his thoughts and wrote that this is the “pope most appreciated by international freemasonry”.
 
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