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Joe Biden Potentially Faces Excommunication After Quiet Induction Into Historically Black Masonic Lodge

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Former President Joe Biden, who is Catholic, joined a historically black Freemason lodge just one day before he left the presidency, an offense punishable by excommunication in the Church.

Biden was conferred with “Master Mason membership” and “full honors” on Jan. 19 at the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of South Carolina, according to the Conference of Grand Masters announcement. Joining the Freemasons as a Catholic forbids an individual from receiving communion, with the potential for excommunication, according to canon law of the Catholic Church.

“Herefore, be it resolved, that I, 27th Most Worshipful Grand Master, Victor C. Major, on behalf of the members of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of South Carolina, hereby confer membership upon President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. in recognition of his outstanding service to the United States of America,” the statement reads.

Former U.S. President Joe Biden gestures while arriving at Joint Base Andrews following inauguration ceremonies on January 20, 2025 in Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Parish Hall Freemasonry, which takes the name of its founder, is a historically black sect of Freemasonry founded in 1775 by freed African slaves, according to the lodge’s page. Biden is now the 16th president in American history to become a Freemason, according to MasonicFind.

The Freemasons are a secret fraternal society that offers fellowship to the men who join, which includes secret rituals and customs, according to Britannica. The masons require that members profess a belief in a “supreme being,” but are not explicitly Christian.

Before a revision in 1983, the Catholic Church prescribed automatic excommunication to anyone who joined the Freemasons, according to the canon law. However, the revision does not mention the organization by name and instead bars an individual from receiving communion or otherwise punishes someone “who joins an association which plots against the Church,” according to current canon law.

The church has imposed excommunication for the offense before and the new language would not change the possibility, according to Catholic Answers.

The Archdiocese of Washington and the Diocese of Wilmington did not immediately respond to questions on whether Biden would face excommunication, be actively barred from receiving communion or any other punishment for the act.

The Conference of Grandmasters did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

 

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Aside from the Catholic view, one must remember that DC, the government and the nation was built by Masons. The seat of government is filled with references to masonic traditions. The aprons, design and technique is everywhere there. Should the whole nation be excommunicated in that sense or would this just be a power struggle between worldly governments? Neither matter to the Kingdom of God.
 
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Aside from the Catholic view, one must remember that DC, the government and the nation was built by Masons. The seat of government is filled with references to masonic traditions. The aprons, design and technique is everywhere there. Should the whole nation be excommunicated in that sense or would this just be a power struggle between worldly governments? Neither matter to the Kingdom of God.
Lutherans and Presbyterians and Methodists will have their own rules about whether their members may be Masons. Catholics do not allow it for their members. So whatever the various Protestants want to do about it is the business of the various Protestant denominations. It's on them. Catholics aren't excommunicating a whole nation. But if Joe Biden joined the Masons, and if Joe Biden is still capable of being responsible for his actions, and if Joe Biden still thinks he's Catholic, then he might possibly find himself excommunicated. I doubt anything will happen to the doddering old man as it's not at all likely he is still responsible for his actions.
 
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I would think if anything were a reason for Biden to be excommunicated (aside from his radical promotion of abortion) his officiating a homosexual "wedding" on two occasions in 2016 and 2017 would be it.
 
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It seems as if it is an honorary farewell gift. He is very close to the SC black community, and the picture indicates it is a primarily black lodge.
Living in Delaware, it is highly unlikely he will do anything with the membership other than keep it with mementos.
And it would have been bad manners to refuse, and this president values good manners.
 
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I would think if anything were a reason for Biden to be excommunicated (aside from his radical promotion of abortion) his officiating a homosexual "wedding" on two occasions in 2016 and 2017 would be it.
Sounds like it was simulating an ordained person. But then Joe Biden was pretty golden wrt the Vatican.
 
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