Do freemasons hate Catholics

Answer 1

The question is not well composed.

If your question is 'Do all Freemasons hate Catholics?'.

The answer is 'no'.

I personally know one (FM) that does not. (hate Catholics)

If your question is 'Do some Freemasons hate Catholics?'.

The answer is 'yes'.

I personally know one (FM) that does. (hate Catholics)

I am answering this using the common definition of the word 'hate'.

I am assuming that a 'Freemason' is a person that is an active member in good standing of the original 'Brotherhood of Freemasonry'. (of the world)

If your question is "Is the institution of Freemasonry opposed to Catholicism?" the answer is no. Freemasonry holds no position on whatever church, temple or mosque people want to attend.

AnswerFreemasonry makes no distinction, pro or con, between different religions or sects. There is no anti-catholic teaching or practice in Freemasonry as an institution.

Answer 2

Yes, in the sense that our doctrine are mutually exclusive.

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Catholic Answer

Mr. Salza who wrote the two books at the links below, Why Catholics Cannot be Masons, and Masonry Unmasked, An Insiders Reveals the Secrets of the Lodge was a high ranking Mason for many years. He finally, after being let in on the higher level "secrets" of the Lodge, and after inducting many people into it, came to realize that what every single Pope has said about Masonry is true, that it is a religion, and although it accepts all comers from whatever religion and allows them to swear their oaths on their holy book, actually teaches doctrines antithetical to all of them. Most Masons do not know the full story, and the Church has stood 100% against the Masons since their inception. If you would like to know the full story of the Mason's and their contempt of religion, please read the books below. If you are a Catholic, or any kind of a Christian, please realize that Masonry is inimical to your Christian faith. Even if you are not Catholic you would be well advised to read the books below, Mr. Salza was in the Masons for many years, and knows of what he speaks.

from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980

Freemasonry. The teachings and practices of a secret international organization whose modern origins date from the first quarter of the eighteenth century. It defines itself as "the activity of closely united men who, employing symbolical forms borrowed principally from the mason's trade and from architecture, work for the welfare of mankind, striving morally to ennoble themselves and others and thereby to bring about a universal league of mankind." Freemasonry began as a fraternity of Deists in Europe, and its basic orientation has been naturalistic, i.e., anti-supernatural, ever since. The hostility of Masonic lodges to the Catholic Church has evoked numerous declarations of the Holy See, notably of Popes Clement XII (1738), Benedict XIV (1751), Pius IX in several documents, especially the Syllabus of Errors (1864), AND Leo XIII in the encyclical Humanum Genus (1884). The Code of Canon Law (1018) decreed that no Catholic may join Masonic sects or any other similar associations which plot against the church (Canon 2335). Since not all Masonic lodges are professedly anti-Catholic, a decision of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith mitigated the severity of the existing law, stating: "In considering particular cases, it must be remembered that penal law is always subject to strict interpretation. Therefore one may safely teach and apply the opinion of those authors who hold that Canon 2335 refers only to those Catholics who join associations which plot against the Church" (September 18, 1974). In special cases, then, a lay Catholic may belong to a Masonic lodge, but the clergy, religious, and members of secular institutes may not belong.

Answer 3

No they do not; it is usually the other way around.