NEWS: April 30, 2025

Bird’s Eye View of the News

Atila Sinke Guimarães

FRANCIS THE BELOVED SON OF MASONRY – Since his death on April 21, we have seen media outlets and governments around the world blissfully presenting Francis as “the people’s Pope.” As we will see, this is Masonic propaganda; he was not authentically attached to the people.

The book Razing the Bastions was written in 1952 in German; it became an ideal for the progressivist current

He used the people, first, as a pretext to diminish the Papacy as much as he could, to make it as egalitarian as possible, and to destroy its monarchical character. Second, because allegedly in the name of the people, he did everything he could to abolish the papal sacrality by refusing to use its symbols and ceremonials, even avoiding the title of Pope by opting to be called Bishop of Rome.

Actually, Francis was a full-fledged progressivist, entirely given to the ideal of destroying the Church in the wake of the other five conciliar Popes. He was the one in charge of razing everything that was still standing in 2013 after 55 years of the Conciliar Revolution. Even before Vatican II, Fr. Urs von Balthasar had launched the motto: To raze the bastions. Each of the conciliar Popes razed as many bastions of the Catholic Church that they could. All together they brought to fruition the greatest apostasy of History. Francis was just the last Pope of this series; the last head of the progressivist beast.

To stage its usurpation of and alleged victory over the Catholic Church, the enemy – the Revolution – is gradually revealing its demonic face. This is why during the Francis pontificate we have seen Freemasonry increasingly divulging its affinity for the Francis agenda. In parallel, we have seen Francis defending more and more the ideal of Freemasonry.

Two landmark declarations

As for the public support of Masonry for Francis, we can list:

On March 14, 2013, the day after Francis’ election, the Grand Orient of Italy through its grand master Gustavo Raffi issued a communiqué praising Francis in these terms:

“With Pope Francis, nothing will be more as it was before. It is a clear choice of fraternity for a Church of dialogue, which is not contaminated by the logic and temptations of temporal power. …

“A man of the poor far away from the Curia. Fraternity and the desire to dialogue were his first concrete words. Perhaps nothing in the Church will be as it was before. Our hope is that the pontificate of Francis, the Pope who 'comes from the end of the world' can mark the return to the Church-Word instead of the Church-Institution …

“The Jesuit who is close to the least ones of history, has the great opportunity to show the world the face of a Church that must recover the announcement of a new humanity, not the weight of an institution that closes itself off in defense of its own privileges. …

“The simple cross he wore on his white cassock lets us hope that a Church of the people will re-discover its capacity to dialogue with all men of good will and with Freemasonry …”

Pope Francis giving a Masonic handshake to Fr. Arturo Sosa, General of the Jesuits

Masonic handshake to Fr. James Martin, S.J.

Masonic handshake to Argentine Archbishop of Cordoba Carlos Jose Nanez

These words issued one day after the papal election show that, although the choice of an Argentine Pope was a surprise for the entire world, the Grand Orient of Italy knew Jorge Bergoglio perfectly well. How would the Italian Masonry know so much about a far-away Argentine Cardinal if it were not because Bergoglio was a member of that organization? It is quite probable he was.

It is interesting to observe the confident tone of Raffi’s words: “With Pope Francis nothing will be as it was before.” How could he state this with such certainty if not because Bergoglio was a Mason? It is hard not to come to this conclusion.

In passing, we see how Progressivism’s dialogue and its fight to change the Church-Institution walk hand-in-hand with the agenda of the Freemasonry.

Finally, it is also telling to see how it presented Francis as a “man of the least ones” who wants a “Church of the people,” which are part of the Masonic propaganda. Those aims fit perfectly with today’s choir that is praising him as “the people’s Pope.”
On April 22, 2025, the day after Francis’ death, the Grand Lodge of Italy through its grand master Luciano Romoli issued an official communiqué praising Francis with these words:

“In this moment of mourning, our Communion [Freemasonry] wants to pay homage to the vision of Pope Francis, whose work is characterized by a profound resonance with the principles of Freemasonry: the centrality of the person, respect for the dignity of each individual, the construction of a community of solidarity, the pursuit of the common good. His encyclical Fratelli tutti represents a manifesto. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the triple value asset of Freemasonry. Overcoming divisions, ideologies, only one thinking in order to recognize the richness of differences and build a humanity united in diversity, this is what Francis ardently wanted, the same plan pursued by the Grand Lodge of Italy.”

This document that stresses the ensemble of the work of Francis as being “characterized by a profound resonance with the principles of Freemasonry” continues in the same vein as the praise previously quoted, insisting that Freemasonry identifies with the Francis agenda, as the reader can verify in this link.

Giving the emphatic nature of these two statements, which frame the beginning and the end of Francis’ pontificate, it is impossible for any serious Catholic to not ask the question whether Pope Francis himself was a Mason.

More support of Masonry for Francis

To help resolve this doubt, I list other public support that Freemasonry gave to Pope Francis on different occasions:

On March 13 and March 20, 2013, the very day when Francis was elected and one week afterwards, the Argentine Freemasonry issued an official greeting to Francis.
On March 13 and March 16, 2013, the Masonic Agency Press of the United Kingdom issued two press releases welcoming Francis' election as Pope. Significantly the first one stresses that this election occurred 187 years after Leo XIII’s Bull Quo graviora condemned Freemasonry. It is a bold-faced contrast that clearly implies that Card. Jorge Bergoglio was a Mason.
In September 2013 a letter dated July 26, 1999 became public, in which Card. Jorge Bergoglio thanked the Rotary Club of Buenos Aires for granting him the title of honorary member of that association...

Masonic handshake to Joe Biden,
President of the United States

Masonic handshake to Cristina Kircher,
President of Argentina

In September 2013, the Grand Lodge of Italy, through its grand master Gian Franco Piloni, sent an official letter to Pope Francis asking that all the divisions between the Catholic Church and Freemasonry be eliminated:

“As Grand Master I wish this to be a golden key to open the channel for a real and tangible collaboration with the Holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church. I ask of Your Holiness an effort to completely eliminate outdated intolerance toward us, publicly, by accepting me in response to this request."
In January 2015, the Grand Lodge of the Philippines displayed a poster welcoming Francis’ visit to the country on January 15-19.
On May 20, 2015, grand master Stefano Bisi of the Grand Orient of Italy expressed his desire to shake hands with Francis to bury the past differences of the Catholic Church and Masonry.
On February 14, 2016, Card. Giancarlo Ravasi, chosen by Francis to be President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, apparently answered these requests by writing the letter “Dear Masonic Brothers,” in which he stated:

“These various declarations of incompatibility between belonging to the Church and Masonry do not prevent, however, a dialogue, as is explicitly affirmed in the document of the German Bishops, who listed specific fields of collaboration, such as the communitarian dimension, philanthropic works, the fight against materialism, human dignity and mutual understanding.”
On December 25, 2018, Pope Francis delivered the message Urbi et Orbi urging the establishment of a Universal Fraternity. This message earned the eulogy of the Grand Lodge of Spain, which stated that Francis’ sermon showed a new path was opening, different from the position of the Catholic Church in the past:

“All the Masons of the World Unite to Join the Pope's Call for 'Fraternity among Persons of Different Religions'

“In his Christmas message from the Central Vatican Lodge, Pope Francis has asked for the triumph of universal fraternity among all human beings. …

“This path, which at that time was condemned by religious integrism, today is the path that the Sovereign Pontiff of the Catholic Church and Universal Masonry agree upon to propose to Humanity.

“There is not a single Freemason on earth who is not united with the Pope and his wish for universal fraternity, heterogeneity in politics, culture, the temporal and the religious.”

Curiously, the Grand Lodge of Spain calls the Vatican the “Central Vatican Lodge”…
On April 13, 2020, the Grand Orient of Italy praised the document of Abu Dhabi, which Francis and the Grand Iman had signed together:

“The Freemasons who gravitate around fraternity could not miss noting a Document that has such a significant title as "Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together."
On February 16, 2024, the Archdiocese of Milan, with the collaboration of the Francis’ Vatican, sponsored a seminar where the Catholic Church and Freemasonry officially entered into dialogue.

All these declarations and symbolic facts, which do not pretend to be a full list, show us that Francis is a beloved son of Freemasonry. He is so beloved that we cannot discard the possibility of him also being a member of this association. On the contrary, we can say that there is a great probability that he actually was a Mason.

To conclude, we have the decisive testimony of the Argentine journalist, writer and former chief of its Secret Service Juan Bautista Yofre, who in an interview with the TV program “La Mirada con Roberto Garcia” affirmed in no uncertain terms that Pope Francis was a Mason.

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