by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

Freemasonry is founded upon many errors. The most fundamental one regards metaphysics: they hold that evil is a thing, not a privation or lack of something due in or which should be in a thing. Thus in morals they hold that vices are good and everyone has the right to live in vice.

We can see these errors in all the events of history and organizations which have attacked Christendom since the founding of the Masonic Lodge in 1717 at London, because the two groups which joined forces to found the Lodge, Protestants and Sabbatean Jews, were both possessed by such an outrageous audacity, that they claimed the right to oppose the One True Religion, revealed and founded by Jesus Christ, the Eternal Son of God, Our Savior, Redeemer, and One True Teacher.

The juridical consequence of their errors, however, most do not recognize well enough. And if it could be given a name, I would all it, “the pretense of right”.

Here I use the English word, “right”, not as the indication of a direction, but in reference to the juridical order, such as in the phrases “your civil rights”, “your right to vote”.

The Pretense of Right as a Masonic Way of Acting

The pretense of right consists in pretending you have the juridical liberty or authority to do something, when you do not have any such right. The entire logic of Freemasonry is founded upon this juridical stratagem.

And their operations also show this hallmark of approach: they will falsely claim some evil is a good, and then claim the right that it be tolerated, then the right that it be done, then the right to persecute those who oppose their pretentious rights. Whether it regards sexual relations of the borders of Israel, its the same error at work.

The Pretense of Right, as used by Freemasons among the Clergy

The pretense of right is also at the basis of many organizations which aim to destroy the Church from within.

First, we have the pretense of right, that the documents of Vatican II, which are not infallible, have the right to be respected and implemented, just as if they were infallible documents not containing any error. Seen this way, it is easy to see that the Aggiornamento is a masonic operation, because it demands the same rights for ambiguity and error as for true Catholic Doctrine.

Second, we see the pretense of right in many traditionalist groups which want de facto autonomy from the Sacred Hierarchy and really do not care about filing canonical appeals, in accord with Church Law, to remove heretics and condemn error. — In this they flip the categories of morals and right, since every Catholic has the duty and the right to denounce heresy and error and file criminal complaints in Ecclesiastical tribunals against heretics or those who teach error, seeking their punishment and removal from office.

Third, we see the pretense of many groups, whether traditional or liberal, to pretend to have the right to do what they cannot do: such as confect the Sacraments or govern the Church or elect Bishops or the Pope.

True Right vs. False Right

I already summarized in an eye-opening historical reveal about how those working for the goals of the U.S. Government’s Ideological Warfare program against the Catholic Church formed fake opposition groups from the first days of Vatican II and successfully infiltrated the Traditional Catholic movement to “neutralize” it. — Indeed, you know you are dealing with an intelligence operative or freemason when they accuse sound Catholics who act like Catholics to undo the plots against the Church of being “unreliable” or “unstable” or as persons who need to be “neutralized”.

Contrariwise, however, Catholics who would be true to Jesus Christ not only have true rights, on which basis they can act, and on account of which they have a sacred duty to guard the common good of the Faithful, but are recognized as true Catholics when they act this way.

Indeed, the history of the last 13 years in the Church all revolves around the pretense of right by the Cardinals, first in 2013 to elect someone to receive the petrine munus, when Benedict XVI never renounced that, and now in May of 2025, the double pretense to be dispensed from the rule of the upper limit of 120 Cardinal Electors, and the pretense to use it, when one has no documented proof and the other is expressly forbidden by the 4th paragraph of the Papal law.

Envy, Jealously and Hatred for the Truth

There are many Catholics on social media who do not have pure motives about promoting the Catholic Faith. They are there rather to profit in fame, influence or even monetary donations. Many Catholic groups, run by laymen, religious or even clergy act similarly.

Thus, we can expect that when any good and sound Catholic effort is undertaken that it will be attacked by someone motivated by such base desires, simply because as persons who pretend to right, they are envious or jealous of, or even hate, those who have true rights.

Beware if you make yourself an enemy of Divine, Apostolic or Ecclesiastical Right

As Catholics we should remember to keep the Commandment against bearing false witness. And we should be especially cautious when we use our mouths to speak against those who are not only NOT pretending to have a right, but who actually do have a right, which is from the Divine Law, or Apostolic Law or Ecclesiastical Law, all of which in different degrees are forms of supernatural right.

I have lost count of the number of crazed laymen and women who personally attack me simply because unlike them, I have taken vows and keep the Rule of Saint Francis, both of which require things of me which distinguish me from other persons who have no ecclesiastical status. They imagine that because of their pretense to begin a Social Media presence, that they should have the rights in virtue solely of their pretensions, beyond those Catholics who actually have rights by supernatural authority.

Finally, since Saint Peter the Apostle gave to the Church at Rome, and to no other Church, the right to elect his successors, this right is not only not a pretense, but is part of the Deposit of the Faith, the denial of which makes it impossible to be saved. That is why Catholics at Rome have infinitely superior rights to Catholics living in any other ecclesiastical circumscription.

Many, addicted to modernity’s superabundance of pretensions to right, cannot suffer this superiority in the juridical order. But they should correct themselves, because they are playing with Hell fire, since Our God and Savior is The Supreme Lawgiver, as He taught us in His Ascension, saying, “All authority in Heaven and on Earth has been given to Me”, and again, “Thou art Peter, and on this Rock I will build My Church, and the Gates of the Netherworld shall not prevail against Her”, and again, “Whatsoever you bind upon Earth, shall be bound also in Heaven; and whatsoever you loose upon Earth, shall be loosened in Heaven.”

In closing, I counsel and recommend to all Catholics on social media, that when you see anyone attack anyone, to first consider who is pretending to have a right and who actually has the right. That is the most fundamental criteria by which to discern who is in the right, in any argument, and how to discern whether a comment is honest or malign.

That is why, when you hear of any argument or insult against Catholics at Rome, in what pertains to their rights, you would do best to exercise the most extreme caution, and go back to the documents of the Church, rather than coping out of that responsibility and simply following the persons who have the greater ability to make up excuses or libel against them. Otherwise, you might be unwittingly the victim of Masonic propaganda or psychological manipulation, which is designed to recruit you to be their ally in their Plot against the Church.

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