The Vatican today confirmed the ban according to which Catholics may not become Freemasons, i.e. members of the centuries-old secret society that the Catholic Church has not looked favorably on for a long time and which has up to six million members worldwide. "Active membership of the faithful in Freemasonry is prohibited due to the irreconcilability of Catholic doctrine and Freemasonry," it says in...

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