What would be the position of a Catholic who joined the Masonic Order?
Such a Catholic rebels against the divine authority of his Church; rejects the Catholic Church as the guide of his moral conduct; commits a grave sin of disobedience; is excommunicated, and deprived of all right to the reception of the Sacraments and to Catholic burial. If he does not want any of his Catholic privileges, and is indifferent to his eternal destiny, he won’t worry about these penalties. But if he has any faith left at all, he will worry. And he will be able to escape the penalities, and be restored to the communion of the faithful only provided he repents of his violation of the laws of the Church; resigns altogether from the Masonic Order; and promises to fulfill his ordinary Catholic obligations in the future. 1052. Is the Toc H. a religion? Toc H. is a Society founded during the war years of 1914-18 to bring the soldiers together into a Christian fellowship of consolation and mutual kindness; and in that way to bring a “touch of heaven” into the hell of their lives. Af
