“The Long Confrontation between the Catholic Church and Freemasonry: Five Significant Moments Jews and Evangelicals, the First Excommunication, the End of the Papal Kingdom, Fascism and the Failed Negotiation” by Lucio Artini and Martino Cartella, September 25, 2021.

This paper reflects on long-lasting conflict between Freemasonry and Catholic Church through reflecting some notable events in the history. Excommunications and bans became historically usual for Freemasonry while Freemasonry reacted resiliently to every of them and survived through the history. Chair: Dimitrios Kontesis

Lucio Artini is born in Arezzo in 1960. He obtained a degree in Political Science at the University of Florence, at the Faculty of Political Sciences “Cesare Alfieri”, course in Political Historical Address – Modern and Contemporary History. He has collaborated with the magazines “L’Uomo” and “Officinae”; in 2014 he published the book “Beato Gregorio X il Papa Crociato: il Papa templare?”.He presented with colleagues a report at the conferences organized by Quatuor Coronati Lodge at Queen College of Cambridge in 2016 and in Alexandria – Washington in 2018, and participated with a report in Bordeaux in 2019 at ICOM 2019. He participated by bringing a brochure to the conference ICHF in Edinburgh in 2013.

Martino G. A. Cartella was born near Bergamo, Italy in 1944 but left Italy in 1965 and after living in different countries for a few years, he settled in London in 1975 and eventually became a British Citizen. He lives in Peterborough. Since early years his passion was reading History and Visiting Historical places all over the world and writing poetry. In 2013 he published his collected work “50 anni di poesie ed altri racconti” – Vertigo Press, Rome”. He has been a Freemasons for over 33 years, active in Craft (L4606), Chapter(L1541), Mark(L44-Kent), and Templars (P429, Middlesex). He is currently a member of the Loggia Lorenzo il Magnifico n.52 in Florence and of the Mount Sinai Lodge 8993 in London.