By Tim Rohr
An anonymous commenter recently shared this link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine_Pecorelli
Italian journalist alledgedly killed for revealing names of Masons in the Vatican
I share this because many Catholics, including Catholic politicians running for the office of the governor, are either unaware that the Catholic Church prohibits membership in Freemasonry, or choose to ignore the prohibition, as demonstrated in several posts on this blog involving a debate mostly between Frenchie and a Catholic defending Freemasonry:
Thursday, November 6, 2025
UNDERSTANDING THE PROBLEM WITH FREE MASONS
Monday, November 10, 2025
Saturday, November 15, 2025
WHY CAN'T A CATHOLIC BE A FREEMASON? FR. MITCH PACWA SJ EXPLAINS
Sunday, November 16, 2025
ON THE IRRECONCILABILITY BETWEEN CHRISTIAN FAITH AND FREEMASONRY
Sunday, November 23, 2025
CONSCIENCE IS NOT PRIVATE JUDGMENT
Thursday, December 4, 2025
NEEDED CLARIFICATION ABOUT DEFLECTION AND DENIAL.
Copied here is the relevant section of the Wikepedia article:
The Pecorelli list: Freemasonry and the Vatican
In the weekly publication he edited, Osservatore Politico, on 12 September 1978, Pecorelli released an edition entitled La Gran Loggia Vaticana (The Vatican Grand Lodge).[5] Within this he published a list of 121 names of Vatican personnel, including prominent Cardinals, Bishops, priests and laymen supposedly belonging to Freemasonry.[6][7] The implication was that there had been a Masonic infiltration of key positions in the Vatican.
Each entry on the list included a supposed membership number and an alleged Masonic code name. Some of the most prominent individuals listed included Cardinals Jean-Marie Villot, Sebastiano Baggio, Agostino Casaroli, Augustin Bea, Leo Joseph Suenens, Ugo Poletti, Salvatore Pappalardo and Michele Pellegrino, Archbishops Annibale Bugnini, Luigi Dadaglio and Pasquale Macchi, Bishop Paul Marcinkus (President of the Vatican Bank) and Mons. Virgilio Noè[5] Although called popularly the “Pecorelli list” and mostly featuring the names of Italian clergymen, the origin of the list was first found in the French publication Bulletin de l'Occident Chrétien Nr.12, published in July 1976 in an article authored by Pierre Fautrad a Fye.[8] This list was subsequently published on 10 August 1976 in Panorama, an Italian magazine, before it was picked up two years later by Pecorelli.[9]
Regardless, the list has been reprinted numerous times, particularly in traditionalist Catholic circles, as supposed evidence to “prove” a Masonic compromise of the Vatican. Some of these themes were reconsidered by British journalist, David Yallop for his 1984 work, In God's Name, featuring a conspiracy theory about John Paul I's death.[10] This list itself was published a mere 16 days before the death of John Paul I, and according to his sister, Rosita Pecorelli, the dossier with a list of names was given to the Pope about the "unfaithful" figures in the Vatican, just before his mysterious death and that the Pope in Rome was planning to take action against the names provided.[11] Some traditionalists such as Roberto de Mattei, while being open to the idea of Masonic infiltration, have encouraged a cautious approach to the Pecorelli list, given that Pecorelli was himself a P2 Lodge member and could have been "spreading disinformation or documents that are both true and false" to "muddy the waters".[12]
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