Dr. Taylor Marshall: Do you think Freemasons are operating inside the clergy and even inside the episcopate?
Bishop Athanasius Schneider: We can assume this. We have no proof because Freemasonry is so organized that you cannot have juridical proof.
Dr. Taylor Marshall: It is a secret society.
Bishop Athanasius Schneider: They are so clever, so crafty in some ways, that you can never demonstrate it. But there are bishops, cardinals, and priests who, when they speak, sound like Freemasons. They even use Freemason jargon and defend typical Freemason principles. Whether they are Freemasons or not, they are implementing Freemason principles.
Recently, a priest, a Monsignor who is a member of a Vatican dicastery, publicly advocated for and praised Freemasonry. To me, he has already outed himself. There was also an article in the Correspondentia Romana demonstrating that this priest is a member of a Freemasonic lodge. Now, they want the Vatican to recognize them. They have already achieved recognition that all religions are equal through the Abu Dhabi declaration and, by God’s will, through the Pachamama cult, which was obviously idolatrous. Their ambition is for the Vatican to recognize Freemasonry as well.
For me, the public stance of this Vatican Monsignor is a step in that direction. It is, in some way, a kind of blackmail toward the Vatican, at least indirectly. We can assume that many forces inside the Vatican are very friendly to Freemasonry and are implementing all Freemason principles: one world government, one world religion, one world education, one world ideology.
This supports the agenda of materialism and naturalism, which we see echoed in ecologism, climate change religion, and the new Amazon religion of nature. They reinterpret the Gospel in terms of naturalism and materialism, claiming that Christ died for nature, for the river, for the Amazon, rather than for immortal souls. This is a perversion of the Gospel. Christ did not become man and die on the cross to improve ecology or clean the Amazon river, but to save human souls. Only when souls are saved will ecology also improve. Without sanctifying grace and obedience to God, the environment will continue to suffer. When man is saved through Christ, nature and ecology will also be saved.