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Subject: Re: Freemasonry and religion.
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          2. We are no longer (total) anathema to the Catholic Church.
     Since 1983 it has been permitted for Catholics to join the Masons, at
     least in North America.

You are probably referring to the 1983 changes in the code of canon law.
Someone joining the Masons used to incur an excommunication by that
fact.

The excommunication was changed in 1983.  It is now for secret societies
that plot against the Church.  Perhaps Steve Dyer could post the exact
wording of the canon.

Joe Buehler