Author name: amdg

The EWTN News portal reports on a June 30, 2026 article by Kate Quiñones detailing a letter from the “Nordic Bishops’ Conference” — signed by the “Bishop” Erik Varden of Trondheim and others — declaring that “there is no exception” for Catholics in Nordic countries from the “universal law of the Church” prohibiting membership in Freemasonry. The piece centers on Pål Nes, editor-in-chief of EWTN Norway and a convert from Freemasonry, who celebrates this “clarification” as resolving decades of confusion caused by a purported “Nordic exception” myth and by “public statements and pastoral practice” such as “Bishop Emeritus” Bernt Eidsvig’s 2025 remark that he would not refuse “holy Communion” to Freemasons. The “bishops” claim to have consulted the “Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith” in September 2025, receiving an “unequivocal” response. The “pastoral provisions” include instructing Catholic “Freemasons” to relinquish membership and abstain from the “Eucharist” until they do, and forbidding Catholic institutions from collaborating with Masonic lodges. This theater of “clarification” by manifestly non-Catholic authorities serves only to reinforce the legitimacy of the conciliar sect’s usurped hierarchy while the true Church remains in sede vacante since 1958.