Roman Catholicism and Freemasonry Author:Dudley Wright 1922. This is a historical, not controversial, work. It contains a full translation of the official Bulls, Encyclic Letters and Decrees issued against the Craft by Popes and Bishops, as well as the official records of the sufferings imposed upon Freemasons under the Inquisition. It throws interesting sidelights onto the history of Freemasonry i... more »n the United Kingdom and Europe, and gives particulars of secret societies into which only Catholics were permitted to be initiated.« less