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Rotary Club at Catholic High School Martha Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Question:

Dear Brother,

My child's Catholic high school has started a Rotary Interact Club, which is the youth version of the Rotary Club. My understanding is that Rotary Club has a close association with the Freemasons. How dangerous is this? My child attended a leadership camp offered by the Rotary Club (he was selected by the Catholic school) and he said the campe made him feel uneasy. One of the leaders wears a fancy Mason's ring.

I only learned about the Rotary - Freemason association very recently.

Thank you.



Question Answered by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OMSM(r), LTh, DD

Dear Martha:

While the founder of the Rotary Club is reported to have been a Mason, I can find no evidence of Masonic influence in the Rotary Club today.

But, there is another problem far bigger than any issues with the Masons. The Rotary Club supports, promotes, and actively participate in Population Control programs. This includes participation in the distribution of contraception and sterilizations.

I did not go to commentators who put there own spin on stories, but directly to the horse's mouth. The following is from the official magazine, The Rotarian.

In two family planning camps, arranged by the Rotary Club of Maraj to help India "build a healthy population" through population control, 324 tubal ligations and 59 vasectomies were performed.... (pg 46, The Rotarian, April 1977)

 

From Rotary International Multinational Manila. Keep in mind the Philippines is a Catholic country. 


Family Planning

EFFECTIVE FAMILY PLANNING

CLICK TO ENLARGE

Virtually all health professionals agree that the most effective ways to control the population explosion are sex education that should start at a young age along with tubal ligation of women who desire it. Qualifications for ligation of indigent women have recently been revised nationwide from women with four children to women with two children, and the requirement that it needs the husband’s signature approval has been eliminated. Thousands of women in municipalities throughout the country are therefore seeking assistance with ligation.

Increasing the percentage of women of reproductive age who avail themselves of the often tight supply of contraceptives such as pills and injectables and are thereby learning to space their babies are additional ways of effective family planning. While birth control pills are distributed free of charge and are generally available, contraceptive injectables that last for three months have to be purchased by the municipal health centers and provided by midwives with service costs added. This greatly limits their use by indigents as they cannot afford to buy them.

It is an effective Family Planning Visual Guide book for doctors and nurses produced by the Philippine Department of Health with technical assistance from the John Hopkins University and funding support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

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And I go on and on. The Rotary has also been supportive of Planned Parenthood.

No Catholic has any business associating with this evil organization.

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary


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