Read on to learn more. 18th century Italian-Austrian artist Ignaz Unterberger painted this initiation ceremony in a Viennese masonic lodge in 1789. Though the Freemasonry movement has roots in ...

A piece titled “Vatican confirms Catholics still forbidden to join Masonic lodges” published ... are far-fetched even by tinfoil hat standards, but Freemasonry is a thing and some of its ...

It's true that Masonic symbols are anything but lost, said Freemason and historian Jay Kinney, author of the newly released Masonic Myth. (See "LOST SYMBOL PICTURES: Masonic Symbols Decoded.") ...

Symbols have long been crucial to Freemasonry. They’re used to codify and communicate important Masonic ideas and values, and some, like the Eye of Providence—a disembodied eye enclosed in a ...

In Mexico, as recently as 2007, the Masonic Grand Lodge of the Valley of Mexico fought efforts against the Church gaining authority over its own schools and communications. Prominent Freemasons ...