Rosario Francesco Esposito
- Rosario Francesco Esposito
Rosario Francesco Esposito (25 September 1921 - 23 November 2007) [ [http://www.paulus.net/pdf/defunti/2007/Esposito_eng.pdf Obituary notice] (PDF)] was an Italian Paulist priest.
He gained notoriety when he announced that he had joined Freemasonry. He dismissed the Church ban on membership in the Masonic lodge, saying that it is “a thing of the past.”
Prior to his joining the fraternity, Esposito, together with Father Giovanni Caprile, had been commissioned by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to study the Church’s teaching on masonry. In 1983 the prefect of the Congregation, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, made a Clarification concerning status of Catholics becoming Freemasons which stated that the Church's the ban on Masonic membership remained in place. [ [http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=49344 "Italian priest joins Masons"] - Catholic World News, Feb. 19, 2007]
On March 1 2007 Bishop Gianfranco Girotti, the regent of the Apostolic Penitentiary, reacted to Esposito's declaration by making a statement that membership of Masonic organisations "remains forbidden" to Catholics, [ [http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=49651 Masonic lodge membership is gravely sinful, Vatican official says] - Catholic World News] and called on priests who had declared themselves to be Freemasons to be disciplined by their direct superiors. [ [http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=103884 Regent Restates Vatican's Anti-Masonry Position] , Zenit News Agency, 2007-03-02]
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