Cardinal dialogues with Freemasons

Cathcon translation of
Le Grand Orient de Belgique à la Foire du Livre de Bruxelles
The Grand Orient of Belgium at the Brussels Book Fair

A great debate

The Book Fair will hold a debate on the interesting theme From anathema to dialogue Thursday, March 6 at 10am (Forum Le Soir).

Face to face: Henri Bartholomeeusen, Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Belgium, and Cardinal Godfried Danneels, primate of Belgium, author of Don’t stop breathing! (Bayard).

After two centuries of anathemas and some informal talks between clerics - already including Cardinal Danneels - and individuals Freemasons, journalist Eddy Caekelberghs (RTBF) will host , at the Book Fair, the first official and historic meeting between the two most senior Belgians in office of these two currents - philosophical and religious - which, after having long been opposed, rejected and ignored, decided to move beyond anger, from anathema to honest dialogue about their respective values, societal imperatives and mutual respect.

Cathcon comment: with just a few months to go in the job, Cardinal Danneels is demob happy. He can hardly have failed to have encountered Freemasons in Belgium- there is a freethinkers lodge which meets not three hundred yards from his cathedral- an open house to anyone who walks in. Cathcon has paid them a visit-not for a dialogue as such but for a thoroughly enjoyable correction of their errors! They must enjoy punishment because I am welcome any time. Cathcon readers need not fear- this is Mission not dialogue.

The old lie that we must learn more about the old enemies of the Church is wrong- Cathcon readers for sure understand exactly what these guys are about.