In Lungo’s case, it seems likely that some at least will take this same line in response to his apparent Freemasonry. But for the Vatican, the case is — or should be — much more acute, since it involves the wholesale moral condemnation by the Church of a legal category of persons.
Does the Vatican regard Freemasonry as a big deal, or not?
In the last two weeks, prominent Italian bishops, including the pope’s own cardinal vicar for Rome, made dramatic interventions to prevent church funerals scheduled for men discovered to be Freemasons.
In the same span of time, the Holy See announced the appointment of a prominent Italian academic to a pontifical committee who, it has since been reported, is also a Freemason.
Professor Umberto Longo. Credit: Festival de Medioevo.
Umberto Longo, a prominent academic and Director of the Italian Historical Institute for the Middle Ages in Rome, was named to the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences on August 13. It was subsequently reported by the website InfoVaticana that publicly available documents bill Longo as a frequent attendee at Masonic conferences and recognize him as a relatively senior member of an especially anti-Catholic strand of Freemasonry.
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