Posted by Frenchie:
Last week, we posted this picture, without comment after an expose about freemasonry, and why it is wrong, and a grave sin for any Catholic to associate with freemasonry.
As the article made the rounds on our local social media, a proxy for one of the persons on this picture, asked in a condescending manner, if this was meant to be an indirect attack on his patron, an insinuation.
Let me be clear there is no insinuation, it is a direct statement about two individuals: Senator Joe San Augustin (D), and Senator Tony Ada (R). Both of them are considered at this time as leading candidates to become the next Governor of Guam. Both of them pretend and claim that they are devout Catholics, both of them apparently see no moral dilemma in the obvious double standard they are trying to get away with.
This site is a Catholic site; it treats subjects related directly or indirectly with Catholic issues on the island of Guam. Over the last 13 years we have covered issues far and wide from problem priests, to abortion, to mismanagement and everything in between
As we are an island officially Catholic at 80%, it is important that these two individuals advertising themselves as Catholic, but in fact being active in freemasonry, clarify their position.
You cannot be one and the other, at once.
Over the weekend the very good local Catholic website: Thoughtful Catholic, treated the issue, in a clear and concise way. You can read it
This is totally clear; there is no room for interpretation. You are either Catholic, or a Freemason. You CANNOT be both at once. Therefore, the question becomes why any of these two individuals, insist on showing up at mass, and taking communion, while they are clearly in a situation of grave sin? This situation is what the Church calls scandalous.
In the case of Senator San Augustin, who is a parishioner at our Lady of Lourdes Church in Yigo, I have personally witnessed several different parishioners on separate occasions over the last 4 years confront San Augustin about going to communion while wearing an oversized Freemason ring. On every occasion, the Senator was very flippant and dismissive, to the point that the former Pastor on several occasions made it very clear from the pulpit that being a freemason is being in a great state of Sin. To no avail. The Pastor even reached out to family members for an intervention, also without success. At the time the Apostolic Administrator (now Bishop of Chalan Kanoa) did not feel it was sufficient to intervene. Since then, the current parish administrator, does not appear to have taken any further step to address the problem. In fact, he has elevated Senator San Augustin's spouse to become a lecturer, which means the couple seats in the front row, while he continues to go to communion.
In the case of Tony Ada, it is not apparent that many people have been in the know, about this similar situation. But the problem here, might be even more controversial, because Senator Ada is a Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem. A prestigious Catholic Order created by Godfrey of Bouillon, the leader of the 1st Crusade. No communication here that has been noted. Apparently Msgr James who was the initiator of the Order in 2012, at the Cathedral, did an indirect admonition through the current Magistral Delegate of the Order, Rodney J Jacob. At this time, we do not know, if that admonition had any result. But the issue is extremely disturbing, especially for someone running for the Highest Secular Office of the Island. The apparent lack of judgment and morality is more than troubling for someone wanting to become our leader for the 21st century. Deceit and distortion are often affiliated with politics. That does not mean, we have to agree to it.
Let's see if either Archbishop Flores or our newly minted Exorcist will take the bull by the horns.
It would be logical for the Equestrian Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem to demand that Tony Ada, either resign as a Knight, and/or resign as a Freemason, then follow the process to be forgiven for his sins.
In any case, it is not a good way to start a political campaign for Governor
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