POPE v. FREEMASONRY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 251, 22 October 1874, Page 2

POPE v. FREEMASONRY.

To the Editor op the ---Evening Mail.' I Sir — Last night's Mail containec."a "letter in aqsyer to a paragraph in the Mail oJCthe previous evening endeavouring to show that the Pope-had. never^been „ initiated^into-. the accursed ordej: of Freemasons, .mT name," and that of theJacCursed Freemason; being of sufficient similarity. to account for.the._nisto^.,Sucbjtwweyer l! ip«ot .correct,' esfimr l>ofh aides jvq_4d .wish us-itft, believe. , in thei first letter it simpjly ,aaid one Jdaatai " Ferretti not o ( ne Paolo. Mastali'Ferreiti, of whom _*$ kno^nbthiUg;' b^ tl' have a Bath Expres, County Herald, and North Wilts Guardian of August -Ist. in which appears a paragraph a*' follows:—" The Grand Lodge of Palermo has expelled Bro. John Mastai Ferretti from all the rights and privileges of-F?eemasoDpy^for-unmssonic conduct to the extent, ol pejrjury and breaeh'jof'hwijf-sdnic^-l^a^^ It is needtesrto say thatin-the-p"«ofane -worldtheiexpell^dj^tpther ferretti is rknown aa ' Pope Pius^the ninth'. ' / .... , .» . I think , the. abQve extract will, coavince most people ! of und_rataniiing tha^it is not a mistake reg^rdq names., „..,, : ~J\'.Z '; ' rl." ' ' ,' r l'J«n. *^P*. " ' ' ! ~"<-l : ''' !j '" " i; ' ' ''" "' • "'■ •FREfe' T___sfcEß. *•■•-* ' ■?':'! :•";. ."!'! 'i-.i.t •. iii-- ,„„•.-] .;,-■-, • rt j. <..,