ROME - The Vatican’s doctrinal office has reaffirmed the incompatibility of Masonry and Catholicism.
The response from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) came in response to a question posed by Bishop Julito Cortes of Dumaguete in the Philippines about what was described as “the continuous rise in the number of the faithful enrolled in Freemasonry” among Filipino Catholics.
Bishop Cortes asked the DDF, led by Argentine Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, for suggestions on how to engage the issue pastorally while also taking into account “the doctrinal implications related to this phenomenon”.
