Clarification concerning status of Catholics becoming Freemasons was created in 1981.
There are Catholics who are considered Pentecostal, although in the main, this is a protestant phenomenon.
It depends in which denomination the Reverend is from, as catholics do not allow it.
Freemasonry is decidedly anti-Catholic and membership by Catholics is not allowed by the Church so how could a pope be a member. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, not exactly. Freemasonry is not anti-Catholic and accepts Catholics for membership. However, it is true that the Catholic Church still frowns on Freemasonary. Since the Papal Bull issued by Pope Clement XII in 1738, Catholics have (in theory at least), been prohibited from becoming Freemasons. So it's very unlikely that Pope Benedict is a Mason.
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Publicly, the Masons state that they have no problems with Catholics joining their society. However, the Catholic Church forbids Catholics from becoming Masons under penalty of auto-excommunication.
Age is not a factor in becoming Catholic, I know of babies who were baptized as Catholics in the delivery room making them full Catholics before they were an hour old. I know of two gentleman who went through RCIA and converted to the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil, both of them were in their nineties, one converted with his wife, who was also up there, age-wise.
Probably not. Governmental regulations are becoming increasingly strict concerning all types of visas.
Most older children and adults who have converted are received into the Church at the Vigil Mass on Holy Saturday.
This may not be typical of all Pentecostals, but my grandfather (a member of AOG) called them "demon worshiping catholics" and forbade my father to get a degree at their local college (at the time the only college within 100 miles of where they lived), thus preventing my dad from becoming a pharmacist.
This question is the cart before the horse. As a Freemason, I would assume that more people study music after becoming Freemasons than before. I don't know if this is the case, but if you live a Masonic life, you would have reason to believe the same.
The Catholics had a problem with Elizabeth becoming Queen because she was a strong Protestant. This is in fact an error! Elizabeth was a Catholic and in a time of change wanted to base the religion of the country on what it was in the last years of her father's reign. That is catholicism without the pope. That is the faith of the early saints and fathers, before the split between the pope and the Eastern Catholics. The problem was between the Christianity of the Councils and the great saints and Authority being held by one man, virtually, the pope. Neither was the problem as such between ,'Catholics' and Elizabeth. It was between the papacy and Elizabeth as a member of the Church in England. Rome is not the Church, but a part of it, it is the Particular Church in Italy! The Suburbicarian Church that Controls Italy and the Islands round about it.
This has happened to very few Catholics and their terrorist actions were certainly not those of a Catholic. It happened because Catholics were made feel and were treated as second class citizens, compared to Protestants..AnswerThis has little if nothing to do with religion. The English came in and took over Ireland, subjecting them, for many years, to cruel oppression. It just so happens that the English were all protestant and the Irish were all Catholic. It has mainly been a fight by the Irish to reclaim their country. It has NOTHING to do with "Catholics" becoming "terrorists".