THE POPE A FREEMASON.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 134, 29 May 1876, Page 2

THE POPE A FREEMASON.

Tp THB,EdITOR OF *THB .' BVBNI^O MaH,.' * Sib— -Tiia article front the' AudkUnd Star in your last issue announcing the Pope having .been a Freemason is now too stale to please your readers. " Tht thing has been,'.*' -write,*, .; a correspondent of the Times, " denied over ' and over again. It has been proved f*lse vand.ludicrouß. The tale is still rehearsed, either to vex- the Catholics, prto mock the and' no'doubt to grAtify Masonry." Well, Sir, to you and to your readers I wilt give, a -proof, that tirill, settle^ the matter, at'V once. In France there ifl a certain law, evea '■ apart from the law for libei, by which those .who prqpagi-telfals^ nevrs in the press a^e amenable to a Criminal Court. Such proved to be the case in that country , a few months . ago in regard tb the news'of ' the Pope having ' been a Ereemason. Ou the Ist December, at - ■Lybnsi G..',PttiiJea'n,- editor of f the Frondeur, was found guilty of the above offence, and sentenced to the penalty attached to it. Shon'd yon wish to hive the proceedings in full, I be mdjt huppy to 'forward thera, to*> you. .. So far, the" Ffench l»w upholds God's 1 " commandment:—" Thou shalt not bear false testimony against thy neighbor " Now, if notwithstanding all the document", principally the lone signed by the Masters andj digniUrtes. which you produced on Siturdaylast, and whhh must been pro 'ueed at the Court by the defendant, that editor was nevertheless condemned,.- it is en evidsat proof that the , announcement of ihe Pppe.^hav.ing'.beeh.a . . Ereemason is a downright falsehood. / .... '' \ ' ■■< lam^&e,,,. „.-. ■',-'[[ 7",. Hear Both Sidbs. ;' .'