tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post862329026062721374..comments2024-03-28T14:19:53.973+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: H J A SIRE on FREEMASONRYFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-85279653332900798122015-10-01T16:08:36.743+01:002015-10-01T16:08:36.743+01:00Because guys like to go somewhere away from women ...Because guys like to go somewhere away from women (even if it's just the porch) and talk and hang out. If they don't have much space for that at home and aren't allowed to go hang with their friends at their houses, but then they get to go to a Secret Clubhouse and use a Secret Handshake and Secret Titles, it's even better. (And it probably has a lot to do with hunting and Bansheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594214770417497135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-73099110160304116252015-10-01T02:19:58.274+01:002015-10-01T02:19:58.274+01:00Charlesdawson, I think women in my country like a ...Charlesdawson, I think women in my country like a bit less regimentation than the men. They seem to go in for things like Medjugorja (sp), Oyster Bay Cove apparitions, Divine Mercy, and generally very emotional displays of devotion to something or other, more entertaining than the less emotional attachment to Rosary, Scapular, First Fridays, etc. I believe that 'liturgical dance' erupted Mary Kayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15177771196355631149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-65986732101950473252015-09-29T11:48:52.215+01:002015-09-29T11:48:52.215+01:00I hate to ask this, but why is it that it is the m...I hate to ask this, but why is it that it is the male sex which is so attracted to these strange rituals and "secret" societies - Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Shriners, Buffaloes (or is it Moose) <i>et al</i>? Along with the peculiar behaviour indulged in at fraternity initiations in America? There aren't any female equivalents, or rather, those that do exist seem to be considerably Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-63001445891595476902015-09-28T16:49:27.164+01:002015-09-28T16:49:27.164+01:00Would Lefebvre really have died under excommunicat...Would Lefebvre really have died under excommunication if he received the last Sacraments. My understanding was that even an excommunicate or laicized Priest had faculties to give the Sacraments and remit the excommunication at the end of life.<br /><br />Am I wrong here?Papabilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15237990297077782435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-17561950229507377092015-09-28T16:18:31.575+01:002015-09-28T16:18:31.575+01:00On Freemasonry, the only really good scholarly his...<br />On Freemasonry, the only really good scholarly history is *The Origins of Freemasonry: Scotland's Century 1590-1710* by David Stevenson (1988, Cambridge University Press - and reprinted many times since). Stevenson shows that it originated at the court of James VI of Scotland in the 1590s around the person of James Schaw, the king's Master Mason, as a kind of discussion circle of William Tighehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16634494183165592707noreply@blogger.com