"It also links Freemasonry with the Society of the Carbonari, known as the "Charcoal Burners", who at that time were active in Italy and were believed to be a revolutionary group" (McInvale, Reid (18 June 2013), Roman Catholic Church Law Regarding Freemasonry, Texas Lodge of Research, consultato 1 agosto 2013
"Tutti sanno che le Grandi Logge d'Oriente dell'Europa e dell'America Latina sono state anticlericali fin dall'inizio. Per la Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede consigliare ai cattolici di non aderire a queste Logge del Grande Oriente sarebbe come se la National Association for the Advancement of Colored People consigliasse ai neri di non fare domanda di adesione al Ku Klux Klan", William Whalen, The Pastoral Problem of Masonic Membership
Whalen, William J., "Freemasonry", hosted at trosch.org. from New Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 6, pp.132–139. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
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"This new concept of Freemasonry – of absolute freedom of conscience... born in the "Convent" (Annual General Meeting) of 1877 and gave birth to a new form of practise in Freemasonry which is called Liberal Freemasonry." Grand Orient de France. archiviato il 23 gennaio 2010.
"which are convinced that the social, moral and intellectual liberation of men and women will be the result of an unending struggle against dogmatic limitations, sectarian forces and ideologies that violate adogmatic freemasonry;" from the Belgian Freemason website. archiviato il 17 luglio 2011.
"As the 19th Century went on, Mexican Masonry embraced the degree system authored by Albert Pike and grew ever more anticlerical, regardless of Rite" (Salinas E., Oscar J. (Senior Grand Warden-York/Mexico) (10 September 1999), Mexican Masonry – Politics & Religion, archiviato dall'originale il 15 giugno 2011)
