ricardo
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Post by ricardo on Jun 7, 2007 20:37:28 GMT
From the Catholic World News website at cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=51590 : "Rome, June 5, 2007 (CWNews.com) - Italian law-enforcemnt officials are conducting 20 separate investigations of Masonic lodges in that country, media reports reveal.
In recent weeks, Italian police have collected the membership lists from masonic lodges scattered around the country. The reasons for the investigation have not been disclosed.
An investigation into the notorious Propoganda Due Masonic lodge in the early 1980's led to a sensational scandal that caused the collapse of the Italian Government coalition and generations scores of theories about international Masonic conspiracies."It raises all sorts of questions e.g.: in which constitution are the lodges involved (Grand Lodge, Grand Orient etc)? Do they have obvious sectarian leanings? Any further information?
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Tony Grimwood
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Post by Tony Grimwood on Jun 7, 2007 20:59:36 GMT
Interesting. Especially in light of the recent ruling of the European Court of Human Rights which states that it is illegal to discriminate against someone on the grounds that they are a member of a Masonic Lodge. www.masonicpaedia.org/showarticle.asp?id=249Tony
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ricardo
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Post by ricardo on Jun 7, 2007 21:13:50 GMT
Some additional news: From another news source sp.rian.ru/onlinenews/20070605/66720704.htmlA rough translation : "In Italy a scandal has unfolded related to a new "secret society" created to influence public institutions, politics and the judicial and police organizations. The Italian news agency AdnKronos informed today that the public prosecutor of the city of Potenza, Henry John Woodcock, is investigating a case of "secret masonry" in which 24 people are implicated. Among them, former high-ranking members of ministries and municipal and regional councils, as well as representatives of the political party "¡Adelante, Italia!" [Forza Italia ??]. The public prosecutor maintains that the suspects have created a "secret society" similar to a Masonic lodge to commit crimes against the public administration. The judicial file already consists of more than 300 pages and has received the name of the "new P-2 lodge". In Italy, the secret lodge P-2 (Propaganda-2) had been preparing a coup d'etat at the end of the 70's and beginning of the 80's.
==================== Coincidentally (?) yet another story has just broken - all five accused of the murder of Roberto Calvi have been acquitted. Calvi was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge in London in 1982. The stories are at news.google.com.au/news?hl=en&ned=au&ie=UTF-8&ncl=1117004038The acquittal will do nothing to settle the theories about the illegal Lodge P2 - read more about the P2 affair at freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/anti-masonry01.html#p2 which itself is a summary of a full paper at www.kenthenderson.com.au/m_papers09.htmlS&F Ricardo .
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Post by ricardo on Jun 11, 2007 8:47:41 GMT
More news - from tinyurl.com/2j2xha"An alarming mixture of Masonry, business, politics and public administration of every kind and species" -- eloquent phrases used by the public prosecutor of Potenza (Henry John Woodcock) to describe the investigation of the alleged illegal activities of the Masonic lodges he has been investigating since 2005. . . . It appears that those being investigated do not belong to the well-known Masonic organizations, such as the Grande Oriente d'Italia (GOI) or the Grande Loggia d'Italia degli antichi liberi accettati muratori [Ancient Free and Accepted Masons] (GLDI). In fact, the two organizations created by persons involved in the inquiry are the Gran Loggia Unita Tradizionale (GLUT) and the Grande Oriente Universale (GOU) -------------- Note - no mention of GLRI (Regular Grand Lodge of Italy). S&F
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