The Catholic Church does not have its own Masonic Order. In fact, Catholics are not to join the Masons. However, the Catholic Church, at least in North America, has the Knights of Columbus which is a fraternal and service organization.
The Catholic Church has no organizations that even remotely resemble the Freemasons.
it is not the same
. Eastern Star and Masons are secret organizations.
There has never been a Masonic fraternity in the Catholic Church, much less one with the pope as grand master. Catholics are forbidden by the Church, under pain of automatic excommunication, from joining the Masons. Pope Benedict XVI, while he was still a cardinal, issued a document clarifying this position of the Church and stating that there has been no change in this policy.
No, the Catholic Church does not own Shea Stadium.
No, the Catholic Church does not own Greyhound. It is owned by the British transport firm FirstGroup, which operates Greyhound as an independent subsidiary.
The Reformation was because the pope wouldn't give him a divorce from Catherine so he left the Catholic Church and created his own church. He was able to take the Catholic Church property and funds which he liked.
No, the Catholic Church remained unchanged. Henry founded his own church with him as the head and made many changes that were different from the true established Catholic Church.
To the best of my knowledge, the Catholic Church has no seas of its own. For the most part, they are all in the public domain.
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No, it didn't.
Catholic AnswerThere is no "Roman Catholic Church", unless you are speaking of the local Catholic Church in the city of Rome. It's just Catholic, not Roman Catholic. Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is never used by the official Catholic Church. .The Catholic Church does not own property as such, saving, of course, Vatican City, which actually is its own country, or city-state, if you will. In the United States, for instance, every thing in a diocese - parish Churches, property, schools, convents, everything is owned by the Bishop as corporate-sole. This is how the Catholic Church in the United States was set up due to the laws of that country. I am not familiar with other countries.
Catholics settled the colony of Maryland to escape the persecution in England. England had become anti-Catholic after King Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church to establish his own church.
because they worshipped nature, which god created, and according to their condemners, you should worship god himself, not his creationsRoman Catholic AnswerIf you are referring to Freemasonry, a secret organizatin whose origins were in the early eighteenth century, then you are asking about an organization that has had open hositility to the Church from its beginnings and has been condemned by nearly ever single Pope for nearly two centuries.
Neither a pope, cardinal, bishop or priest owns a Church. They are the property of the Catholic Church.