[BlackElk]

Give us Catholics half a chance and you may find us far less antagonistic to the Masons than you believe and very strong allies in the war against Islamofascism and on social issues like abortion and faux "marriage" among the lavender. In the 1920s, your order and my order were swapping some very lurid and colorful charges of bloodcurdling misbehavior by one another.

This is 2006. We have all had to do some painful growing up as the world has deteriorated around us since the 1920s. Fraternalism, yours and mine, is under general assault for all the wrong reasons. There is much that is good in each order and not very much that is morally neutral much less good about our common opponents. You seem not so bad and I assure you that I am not so bad either. We can agree where we can agree, agree to respectfully disagree on other matters, and be warriors in common cause for most of the things that matter.

[oldtimer]

Thanks - I have a lot of respect for the Catholic Church, more than you would suspect.

Just get tired of the shots at the Freemasons. Am a 32KCCH (one degree below the 33rd), and know the Masons to be a benign fraternity with the best interests of all mankind as a mission - AND, I know the Catholic Church is the same.