PORTUGUESE CLERGY AND FREEMASONRY.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2981, 4 September 1878, Page 3

PORTUGUESE CLERGY AND FREEMASONRY.

,! (To the Editor of the Evening Star.) Sin.-—tn your issue of yesterday, in re'fererice »o I lie above I re^d a paragivph ext-acted,from the Ho^je.N^ws,stating that spme'"pf the Caiholip clergy men of Portdf^nt >we lr>"' l-ri>benfi7'^iK^vprrd' As behg members of tbe" craft of Freemasonry;, that it w-^ difficult for the 'ecclesiastical EiittoriJfes iq/dM., jiitK tlbM, lanli:!tlikt; {^c 3Pap?. m|pr»d, ,d 's;eiidin)f IWeW to^ptme^aod immuringoth'em, thei-a' ia ,»}., mpftasto?y,, ; r,B the, best. 'ibUitioil of tHe matter, ,Jt ;S is kDovFnito .the, w^^tn^ ,^he Catholic Church hrs conden|D,rdr^e?m?!!6nr y o^er ; und icrer again, and a Catholic who should become a Freemason, is, .byatbe yeryifacttbf his being,a Freemasou, »s.little entitled,to .tnVliaine.. 1 ofvjdathotlicr-ißUch iess ; pf )iC"'tb.olic clergyman —as .ifv he 'had turned Mj&jomfdas,.and ? iq ifw as the principles ;bf, ,'^e, t Cithplio Cburch concerned tterA ia s pob!ftipaTGicli£hofi;difference^ in the two case?. Now would it offer a rery gerious,' perplexity to ;the' Nuacio, had; he foupd«6ubV l that.'a-balf-do(zeiti!priests had' turned Mahomcdens, how to deal with J them'f''"lt* Would'noi; ,b^ciu§iß eVery diffi'- 1 ■icalty ifl'-regift'd 1 td tlie: suppds'ed dul^ritaV was ended by the irere fact of"the dw ?J . "^V>MaVIo ihlnk of'allowing them to continue priests, it would be as likely_ that,he (Would.dp auch a,^i^g^a it would,, .some,, ha.l£-A l dp^,(.un^Knis))ed 7 ,lur*s. !ffi"set^'ttiSm'up'for Catholic priests. It is not impossible, but exiremely improbable, that a priM^inayi-Mlr9.Mi^omed>n oj Freemason ;lbut if ; .he dpef, %c, •llc^ChuVcV wTitcn he ,^ell iknows.,lß ( no, .^VenTor graulM thai a few of thenrbaw 1 in-Portugal, what W*mi^c^tXiW%%?* off" tb? Pope orWNutfc^tHandoes Bismarck, with iis, perßeciffion r 4^ r L Germany, or W M' new - fangled coterie? ..Yet^these: difficumesj are, no.t •'* l3HittW JW9m'if un n in u «; monastery, , fctom w^rthjr prsamp^pt^e.ibhrain tb.an; tbstt of Papal JNmicio, and sounds to.my mindias a hoax .tiLqam W^rtw^iavei^ornof^labH ,jrj«>se,scjare! wotildcWeofir umwpi =tarn < %h* jnp,po»ed drtease. t i Let'ds imagine' a feif dMawhip clergyman! 'with' their \grips "and taianalkutttow^ll}' fedWfJlsW'jantf^qui^s, •prroi; kt.W&^m*V*a}ft&**W !■» Am^vMnm^i wHM"tßr%i; charm them about the slprie3;of:©ee and .the. sublimity of ithe great architect s {niWEtolMof?Templ..>^i*aW »i| of i|ji^«4 fiopn^uW^tfthe^whoie: IS!(si3^ttniti,iße l ,a,glorious,,ba.^d pfj."ep-j /PTflSQ^JJiWia^Pß^' "»iW*-t lottippose' th c ffiSSfSfceiwise enough to think jtipwnjßta^**rt«* rjgl' ''tea: gs jestimatejigoodinaturedly, otthe t»tfnoi.a a :^fl£stieir' andj:l«take it that'his «»mpathT'did<not allow 'him winfqrm his tfc« •aldPirtMHgM^'confceriiitfg the Pp|-; :tiil»i^s:;:piffls#; J !an ii , 'J ( enlighteneds ? Wimfmmi > W w his,fertile ,S'agiyßfi^P ( pjv»i»HiinF«nted a' pleasant story 'feth!B t gr>tilli«i^onioi his distAnt colonial '.-vilr'i'-uoai i".;j; bu>? '; i -; !iilo* | 8 -u^iA!- ; (DaJ|li6li6: w; itia¥;« %'s)#■s» •M^WWiSHitiasif';pre>n'arare^^ .m; cntioidingi .%ar )^jj| c Eue / sile f --ER.j ;!i ,h ,-:,,.ur_■«•».»