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The most interesting historical question, therefore, is not whether Garrigou-Lagrange was worried about occultism—he plainly was—but whether the author can produce primary-source evidence connecting Saint-Yves, Roca, Martinism, or Freemasonry directly to the particular theologians he accuses. That is where the argument either becomes a genuine intellectual-history thesis or remains an inference from similarities.

The Masonic Infiltration of Mainstream Catholicism Christian Order https://christianorder.com › features › feature_2015-05 ... could these visions of the " New Church " of the " Divine Synarchie " infiltrate mainstream Catholicism and be proclaimed authentic " development of doctrine . Read more ... ... The Jesuits and the Lodge The question again comes back to how could these visions of the "New Church" of the "Divine Synarchie" infiltrate mainstream Catholicism and be proclaimed authentic "development of doctrine." By the end of the nineteenth century the plight of the "proletarian," or working class, a by-product of the industrial revolution, had become a legitimate concern of the Catholic Church, as seen in the Social Encyclicals beginning with *Rerum Novarum *by Leo XIII in 1891. Following these directives, by 1910, in France, the workers movements had found a hero in the Abbé Lugan, an orthodox but socially-o...

The most interesting issue The genuinely important question is therefore not simply “Did Francis use Kabbalah?” He clearly cited Scholem's presentation of a Kabbalistic tradition. The stronger historical-theological question is: How does Francis's use of Scholem's interpretation of the Fall relate to the Catholic doctrine of Original Sin, the nature of knowledge, and the relationship between Christianity and non-Christian religions?

ChapGBT: This article is making a much stronger claim than the underlying evidence establishes . Its argument can be separated into several distinct steps: What Francis actually did: In his January 17, 2018 address at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Francis cited Gershom Scholem's discussion of a Kabbalistic interpretation of the Fall. The OnePeterFive article accurately identifies the citation and the relevant passage. What Francis's passage says: Francis describes an ancient Kabbalistic tradition in which the rupture associated with eating from the tree of knowledge produces a situation in which knowledge comes to dominate creation. He uses this as part of a warning against reducing reality to ideological or purely conceptual schemes. The article's interpretation: Armstrong moves from Francis quoted Scholem's account of Kabbalah to Francis therefore adopts Kabbalistic theology . That inference does not follow merely from the quotation. Quot...

Pope Francis and Kabbalah: From Jewish Mysticism to Pagan Collaboration? H. Reed Armstrong June 27, 2018 In his recent interventions, Pope Francis had repeatedly referred to a “paradigm shift” with regard to the Church’s attitude toward native cultures in different countries. It seems that he has in mind a return to rooted indigenous cultures and religions. One of his reference points for this approach is the Kabbalah, a Jewish occultist and… Read more

Pope Francis and Kabbalah: From Jewish Mysticism to Pagan Collaboration? H. Reed Armstrong June 27, 2018 In his recent interventions, Pope Francis had repeatedly referred to a “paradigm shift” with regard to the Church’s attitude toward native cultures in different countries. It seems that he has in mind a return to rooted indigenous cultures and religions. One of his reference points for this approach is the Kabbalah, a Jewish occultist and… Read more

The Masonic Infiltration of Mainstream Catholicism HAMILTON REED ARMSTRONG

https://christianorder.com/features/feature_2015-05.html The Masonic Infiltration of Mainstream Catholicism HAMILTON REED ARMSTRONG Over the years when Robert and I have gotten together to muse over the state of the world, the conversation inevitably turned to the influences of Masonic ideology on post-Conciliar Catholic thought and teaching. While the topic is complex, involving secret infiltrations and subterfuges, there are traceable open encounters between Masonic lodges and Catholic orders, especially the Jesuits, once the praetorian guard of the Papacy and the vanguard of the counter reformation, dating back to the late 19th century. I shall, in this paper, attempt to highlight these encounters within their historical framework and show the nefarious results of this infiltration. Before delving into the problem itself, however, I shall present a brief summary of Masonic history and thought. Masonic religion: esoteric and occult Freemasonry, also known as "the Brotherhood...