Masonry conducted a full-scale, vicious attack on the Catholic Church under the auspices of its grandchild, the violently anti-Catholic Know-Nothing Movement in America, which was reorganized as the American Protective Association [APA], and the Ku Klux Klan [KKK].

The religious situation in the United States required Masonry to use a different strategy in its war on religion in the United States than it used in Europe and Latin America. Thus no single religious denomination prevailed as the dominant one, but rather a blend of Protestantism was the Established Church. From colonial times forward, the laws of the nation and the several States clearly sanctioned the moral values of general "Christianity", as a reading of Federal and State laws reveals.

James Madison in his "Memorial and Remonstrance", a document often cited favorably by the U.S. Supreme Court, even in recent years, made a statement which accords solidly with the consistent teaching of the Catholic Church. Madison said:

"Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe: and . . . every man who becomes a member of any particular Civil Society [must] do it with a saving of his allegiance to the Universal Sovereign."

In four separate decisions the U.S. Supreme Court asserted that the United States is a "Christian" [meaning Protestant, see what was banned below in bold text] nation. Those decisions are: Vidal v. Girard's Executors [1844]; Mormon Church v. United States [1889]; Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States [1892]; and US. v. McIntosh [1931]. Perhaps preeminent among the many laws in the States were those requiring prayer and Bible reading in public schools. [THEIR GOD IS THE DEVIL, Paul Fisher, pp. 8-9.]

Other laws prohibited non-essential selling on Sundays. Still others banned transportation of contraceptives through the U.S. mails. Also outlawed were: blasphemy against God, Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary; public obscenity; fornication; adultery; easy divorce [Ronald Reagan became our first divorced President]; pornography; abortion; and advocacy of overthrow of the government by force or violence, quite ironically considering the establishment of the United States. Except for the abortion decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court, nearly all of those laws were struck down between 1941 and 1971 when the high bench was dominated----for the first time in its history----by Justices who were members of the Masonic Fraternity. Some of the Masonic Justices were: Hugo L. Black, James F. Byrnes, Samuel Blatchford, Harold H. Burton, Thomas c. Clark, John H. Clarke, William Cushing, William O. Douglas Oliver Ellsworth, Stephen Field, John Harlan, Robert H. Jackson, Thurgood Marshall, Stanley Reed, Earl Warren, Frederick Vinson, Stewart Potter. John Marshall, the First Chief Justice, and John Blair, Jr., of the Constitutional Convention were also practitioners of the Craft. In the interest of conserving space, we gave a partial list only. Three recent members were mentioned above.

The abortion decisions have been predicated on a 1965 decision "Griswold v. Connecticut" which found "penumbras" and shadowings in the Constitution of a "right to privacy." These facts have all been documented in Behind The Lodge Door: Church, State and Freemasonry In America, by Paul Fisher.
 
Thus, while it is generally accepted that the secret Fraternity of Freemasonry actively worked to undermine the Church in Europe and Latin America, it is also evident that Masons played a major role in undermining Catholic morality in the United States.

According to Paul Fisher "the lasting impact of decisions made by the Court when it was dominated by Masons can readily be evaluated by simply comparing crime statistics and the general disintegration of society for the periods before and after 1941----particularly since 1963, following Court decisions which formally jettisoned belief in God as a criterion for holding public office and outlawed prayer and Bible reading in public schools.

"In 1884, Pope Leo XIII echoed the view many of his predecessors and successors articulated about Freemasonry. He said the ultimate purpose of Masonry is 'the utter overthrow of that whole religious and political order of the world which the Christian teaching has produced, and the substitution of a new state of things in accordance with their ideas, of which the foundations and laws shall be drawn from mere naturalism.'
 
"His catalogue of the evils inherent in Masonry included its religious indifferentism, its efforts to prohibit any influence" of the Catholic Church in society, "its plots to destroy the Papacy, and, in all nations, its efforts to control the education of youth and require that all reference to God or Jesus Christ be expunged from the curriculum."
 
"In the name of liberty," the pontiff said, "Masonry defends license for vice and licentiousness."
[THEIR GOD IS THE DEVIL, Paul A. Fisher, pp. 7-10.]

The Mode of Operation
Taken from Secret Societies and The Kingship of Christ, Fr. Denis Fahey, C.S.Sp., pp. 65-106

[Let us look] at the process by which the Masonic mentality is spread abroad amongst the people.

Masonry was [always] combated by Catholicism. Catholicism must be eradicated. The object of the Sect was the production of a state of mind that would be fanatically anti-Catholic: and the principle invoked in order to bring about this state of mind was the principle of toleration. The sublime mission of Masonry was conceived as the establishment in the world of the Religion of Toleration. Respect for Catholicism, that is, for " sincere Catholicism," was at first insisted on. Certain lecturers stressed the fact that if they had any hatred or enmity in their hearts it was against those intolerant Catholics who were, without suspecting it, the enemies of Catholicism. Masons were first urged to struggle against a section of the Catholic Church, the Jesuits, for example, under pretense that these interpreted the Catholic religion with intolerance. Masonry, accordingly, had for sublime mission to defend the tolerant Catholics against the intolerant Jesuits, so the Jesuits had to be suppressed, But then it was seen that the Jesuitical spirit had invaded the whole Church, so the "good" Catholics had to be protected against the "bad " ones infected with that spirit. But after some time, the lecturers discovered that the root of the hateful Jesuitical intolerant spirit was the absolutism of dogma. The mildest of men, it was affirmed, become intolerant when they accept dogma, for dogma is intolerant by nature. Accordingly, Masonry had to defend the world against dogma. Thus minds were prepared for an attack, no longer merely on the individuals who it was pretended interpreted the doctrine wrongly, but on the doctrine itself, in order to defend the human race. The lectures took another turn also, It was not the Catholic religion that was the object of attack, but "Clericalism", [defined by the Masons as Catholic principles brought to bear in society and politics.]

 The moderate-minded in the Lodges would have protested against attacking the Catholic religion because of the clause in the statutes demanding respect for all religions, but the political domination of priests could not be accepted. The campaign was begun in the lodges and continued outside, in the Parliament, in the Press, in schools. Then, one fine day, the hatred accumulated against " clericalism " was turned against Catholicism. But, before that, the religious Congregations had to he suppressed, because they were the great defenders of clericalism. The secular clergy were spared for the moment, but their turn came also, when Masonry found itself strong enough to avow that its object was the complete destruction of the supernatural. Long before that avowal was made in public, Brother Courdavaux, Professor of Literature in the University of Douai, frequently repeated in lectures in lodges in 1888 and 1889, that "The distinction between Catholicism and Clericalism is a purely official, subtle distinction for public discourses. Here in the secrecy of the lodge, let us proclaim the truth openly, Catholicism and Clericalism are one and the same thing." This glorification of lying and hypocrisy was received with applause. Let us now turn to the process by which the unity of a people around the supernatural, and in. subordination to it, is gradually undermined and ruined.

How does naturalism penetrate from the lodges into the masses of the people? The journalist in his articles, the writer in his books, the dramatic author and film-producer in their compositions, the song-writer in his songs, the professor in his lectures, the teacher in his classes, all abroad the ideas with which they have been impregnated in Masonic reunions. And as the Masons who thus act as propagandists do not avow that they are Masons, their action is not recognized as Masonic action. The moderate paper, seemingly respectful of religion, may have, without its being known, its Mason or Masons, who insert therein what it is safe to say, going as far as is possible for the moment and biding their time till public opinion is formed and ready to accept something stronger. In the lodges, these Masons come in contact with those who are engaged on the anti-Catholic papers.

Besides the direct action of its own members on the public in their different capacities, Masonry aims at creating sub-Masonries or associations for the propagation of its ideas. These associations vary according to the types of intelligences for which they are destined, but, in spite of differences, the Naturalistic and anti-Supernatural note is always present. The gradations of this ever-present characteristic range from rabid anti-Catholicism to "broad-minded" indifferentism. In 1891, at the Congress of the Lodges of the South of France, it was stated that French Free-thinkers formed 600, groups, the formation of which was in great part due to Masonry; In 1894, the Masonic Congress of Amiens recommended the creation of societies acting under Masonic inspiration, yet such that the action of Masonry should remain hidden: "thus we shall be able, to make our ideas predominant everywhere, while we remain in the background.''

In the Revue Int. des Societe's Secretes, of 16th October, 1927 there was a quotation from Neues Reich of 9th July, 1927 concerning the Rotary Club. According to this extract, Rotary is a particular aspect of Masonic activity, a sort of open MaSonry. The principal object of Rotary is the elevation of the moral level ot humanity. Hence at the recent Ostend  Congress of Rotary Clubs from the entire world, the Belgian Minister of Justice defined Rotary as "a code of lay morality and of national and international citizenship."

To those acquainted with Masonic ideals, this last phrase speaks volumes.

Besides creating associations for the dissemination of Masonic ideas, Masonry aims at getting an entrance into and arriving at the control of associations which it has not created. The Congress of Amiens, already referred to, urged that Brothers "should seek to enter existing societies, but with the greatest prudence. The Congress of the Lodges of the North-West of France, by the mouth of Brother Bourget, urged the "entrance of Masons into societies of Free-thinkers and the sounding of the intentions of Primary Teachers, who in their capacity of educators of the people can render us great services."

Thus does Masonry spread naturalism and indifferentism, always acting hypocritically and always taking care to proportion the doses of intellectual and moral poison to the capacity of assimilation of the patients under treatment. It aims at multiplying causes of division amongst Catholics, and thus securing for itself many unconscious collaborators, in its work of destruction. Thus divided with regard to the supernatural order by the defection of so many from the religion of their ancestors, divided with regard to the natural order by the dynastic question, the ancient and noble French nation, so remarkable for its grasp of the objective order of the world, has become a number of floating molecules, "human dust" to use Taine's expression. In the midst of that "human dust," Masonry formed and forms, a solid block. Frenchmen could not imagine that any association could lie so consistently; hence the statement that Masonry did not concern itself with politics was accepted. Masonry was held to be either a special kind of society for mutual assistance or a group of pompous and boastful speakers for a body of lovers of banquets and good cheer; its true character was not known except to a few, whose warnings were to a great extent unheeded.

When once we realize that Masonry's programme is Naturalism and that the control of Masonry is largely in the hands of the leaders of the Jewish Nation, ever looking forward to a Natural Messias to come, and therefore a force ever seeking to disrupt the whole order based on the Supernatural Messias, Our Lord that is being attempted in all Catholic countries,. It is the struggle for and against the Kingship of Christ. The submission of Society to Our Lord continuing His mission in the Catholic Church must come back or Society will perish.  . . .