Catholic Church Scandal Over PAPAL KNIGHTHOOD of Kufuor

Recently, The Roman Catholic Church conferred the most pretigious Papal Knighthood on ex-President John Agyekum Kufuor of Ghana, according to the article below. Apparently, someone forgot to do due diligence because they overlooked the fact that Kufuor was a senior member of the Freemasons, long-hated by the Catholic Church. Whoops!
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Scandal Hits Catholic Church
General News 2010-11-06:

…Over Kufour’s Knighthood

A scandal is erupting within the Roman Catholic Church over the recent conferment of the prestigious Knight Commanderhood Order of Pope Pius IX on ex-President John Agyekum Kufuor by Pope Benedict XVI.

A damning article in circulation within the Roman Catholic Church reveals the ex-president’s senior membership status of a powerful secret society in the UK, called the United Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of England, which he served as a Senior Grand Deacon (SGD) and a Grand Sword Bearer (PGSwdB

The Freemasons are bitterly abhorred by the Vatican, and all Roman Catholic worshipers have been prohibited by the Pope himself from joining. Anybody who disobeys this order automatically ceases to be a member of the church.

The article also questioned the selection of Mr. Kufuor for the conferment in the face of his alleged adulterous affairs with Gizzle Yadzi, endemic corruption, murders, narcotic drugs afloat the shores of Ghana during his tenure as president and his membership of a secret society, the Freemasons.

A member of the church, Dominic Sagoe, Ghanaian resident in Norway, wrote the article and insists that Mr. Kufuor is undeserving of the knighthood because he is not a Roman Catholic, but rather an Anglican who became a catholic under bizarre circumstance.

It also accused the Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference of hypocrisy and the Catholic Standard Newspaper of dishonesty.

While the article reveals that Ghana Catholic Bishops for whatever reason, failed to do due diligence on Mr. Kufuor before presenting his name to Pope Benedict XVI, for the title to be conferred on him, it also exposes a situation where Mr. Kufuor committed sacrilege by dishonestly receiving the award knowing he is not supposed to by virtue of his membership of a Lodge.

The revelation also puts his wife, Mrs. Theresa Kufuor, in collision course with both the Vatican and the Ghana Catholic Bishops for not drawing their attention to her husband’s membership of a secret society which the church has banned its members from joining.

The Catholic Church has been a persistent critic of Freemasonry. Since the early 18th century, the Vatican has issued several papal bulls banning membership of Catholics from Freemasonry under threat of excommunication. Currently, as reiterated in 1983, Catholics who become Masons are in a state of Grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion, but the penalty of excommunication is not formally declared.

The Church argues that Freemasonry’s philosophy is antithetical to Christian doctrine and that it is at many times and places anti-clerical in intent. The 1913 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia argued that some of the ceremonial in the Scottish Rite is anti-Catholic. The Masonic use of Biblical imagery is also seen by the Catholic Church being done in a way that suggests antichrist.

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