The Clarification - Lenny, The Vatican and the Masons.

12 January 2011 23:49
What links the leader of the world's most evil organisation and (almost) the present Pope? Hamilton Academicals don't have any direct links to the Masonic orders. (At least none that we are telling you about, Timothy.) They are a football team whose roots lie with a school side - that of  the non-denominational Hamilton Academy - and thus are not on the list of the Vatican's approved sporting outfits. However, after tonight's game with Celtic, controversy is again the winner.  Neil Lennon has yet to offer his mantra "I want clarification" but it cannot be long before that or some other substitute is produced from the great big bag of excuses and hocus pocus. It may sound funny to hear the manager of Celtic find favour with this particular phrase but it seems unlikely he plucked it from fresh Lurgan mist or perhaps Derry air. No, it is evident that following the visit to the UK this summer of the sixth - or was it, as Frank Black would prefer, the seventh -  biggest  touring act Neil Lennon has found salvation and comfort in the works of the Pope, and discovered the wide range of literature he created and religious texts/statements he wrote and improved upon while a mere Cardinal and still blessed with his German surname. Chief among this - and to select a favourite is much like choosing your favourite play of William Shakespeare - may be the Quaesitum est (or The Declaration on Masonic Associations), 1983's best-seller from the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dr. Jo Ratzinger. You may know him better as the Hitler Youth pin-up of 1941 or from his role as Senator Palpatine/Darth Sidious/Emperor Palpatine/Whatever the Hades George Lucas is now calling the character. But he's now the Pope: God's messenger on Earth. And not keen on the Masons. Or Dan Brown. Anyway, back to the Declaration: this became the definitive proclamation of the position of the Church on the matter but two years previously, just before Ratzinger's promotion to the head of the modern day Inquisition, we'd been treated to the text from which Neil has found inspiration, a letter sent from the offices of the Congregation entitled 'The Clarification concerning status of Catholics becoming Freemasons' - in short, The Clarification: the definitive article. You'll not be shocked to hear that excommunication was the order of the day for any Roman Catholics who wished to join that Mozart fellow, Kings, Presidents, and other insignificant men. That, clearly, is what this is all about: when Lennon asks for, demands, pleads for 'Clarification' he is not only appealing for the text - he is following its logic and asking for those who oppose to be removed from the grace of the game and replaced only by those who will follow the faith and organisation he represents. All very sinister and unwelcome in this fine land and we must hope the Establishment will see through it all.

Source: FOOTYMAD