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updated 5 February 2006

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Rotarian Lodge #4195

The discovery of a badge with the Rotary wheel encircling the Masonic ... A Masonic Lodge for Members of the Rotary Movement whose Badge is in the Emblem. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/history/ history/otherorganizations/freemasonry/lodge.htm - 53k -

Freemasonry

The official newspaper 'Osservatore Romano' wrote "In some nations, because of a prevalent Masonic influx, the action of Rotary Clubs has conflicted with ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/history/ history/otherorganizations/freemasonry/ - 58k -

Scotland

Harris created something unique, a whole world away from the old fraternity clubs such as the Elks and the Masonic Orders. Paul Harris founded a different ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/presidents/ 1910harris/paulharris/other-countries/scotland.htm - 62k -

Gus Loehr

In Masonic records, Gustave Loehr is shown as a 'jeweler' on one document and as a 'promoter' and also as a 'mining engineer in some of Paul Harris' ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/711/loehr.htm - 48k -

Birmingham, UK

They have a sort of Masonic badge by which all Rotarians, as they are called, may know a confrere. There are similar Clubs in a few of the chief towns, ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/clubs/ clubs-with-conventions/birmingham/ - 42k -

Wolverhampton, UK

Today the Wolverhampton Club flourishes with just under 90 members and meets at the Masonic Hall on Tuesdays at 12.45. It may be of interest to note that ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ clubs/clubs-of-rips/wolverhampton/ - 57k -

Rotary Global History Fellowship Search for Conflict and War

Freemasonry ... to try to convince the Papal authorities that Rotary was not Masonic, and that it was a movement which was not in conflict with any Catholic ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/conflict/search.htm - 130k -

History of Rotary in Europe

In our pages on Masons and Rotary, there are several references to the views of the Catholic Church which tended to regard Rotary as being quasi-Masonic. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/europe/history.htm - 50k -

Joliet #78

Since then, Joliet Rotary has held its luncheon meetings in the Universalist Church parlors, Snapps Cafeteria, Chamber of Commerce, Masonic Temple, YMCA, ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/clubs/cities/clubs/78joliet.htm - 46k -

First Fifty Years

RI's preview* of "50", Masonic Card 2/13, Story of 50th stamps, Envelopes from Cuba. Graphics from Wolfgang Ziegler. 2/23 Visa from Cuba, Paul Harris/Chile ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/library/centennial/ - 67k -

Freemasonry
This eventually led to a much more serious problem when the Catholic Church,
which had long been an antagonist of Masonry, classed Rotary as a similar ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/history/ history/otherorganizations/freemasonry/ - 58k -  

Rotary Club of Antigua and Barbuda, the First Club of Antigua
Other significant educational projects, include a Masonry Training Programme,
sponsored jointly by the Club and Antigua Masonry Products Ltd., ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/countries/antigua/ - 43k -  

Dr. Wolfgang Ziegler
*Walter L. Wilmhurst, 1867 “The Meaning of Masonry”. This was simple: I only
exchanged “Masonry” with “Rotary”. We should make some effort in the future, ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/philosophy/ziegler/ - 43k -  

History of Rotary in Latin America
Based on Nicholl's 'The Golden Wheel', Juan Alvarez's excellent analysis of 'Masonry
in Latin America', RIBI's 'The Rotary Wheel' and other published works. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/regions/latinamerica.htm - 103k -  

Basil Lewis
Free Masonry · Rotary "Lodge" #4195 · Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Region History. History of Rotary in Europe · History of Rotary in Poland ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/historians/lewis.htm - 64k -  

History of Rotary in Europe
In Spain and Italy, Catholic Bishops and journals both warned against membership
in Rotary, although it was not until 1940 that Spanish clubs had their ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/europe/history.htm - 50k -  

The Vatican
By the end of the decade, the Catholic Truth Society was able to declare that "Rotary
is neither secret nor seditious". It was nevertheless still regarded ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ history/headings/leaders/vatican.htm - 68k -  

Rotary Club of Macau
The concert was co-organized by the Macau Catholic Social Services and the Orbis
Charity, with the support of Macau Government. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/countries/macau/ - 41k -  

John Dryden
In 1687, after his conversion to the Catholic Church, he wrote The Hind and ...
His Catholic leanings lost for him the laureateship and other offices when ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/philosophy/dryden/ - 42k -  

History of Rotary in Ireland
Southern Ireland, being a very Catholic country developed at a lesser rate due
to the attitude of the Church (The Roman Catholic Church’s attitude to Rotary ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ clubs/ireland-uk/irelandhistory.htm - 42k -  

Radio Address 1933
Is there any valid reason why catholic and protestant, Jew and gentile should
not enjoy ... Where it is done in rotary, catholic priests, Jewish rabbis and ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/presidents/ 1910harris/paulharris/1933.htm - 59k -  

Rotarian Lodge #4195
For many years, the Roman Catholic Church, a long time opponent of freemasonry,
banned members of the church from joining Rotary as well, believing it to be ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/history/ history/otherorganizations/freemasonry/lodge.htm - 53k -  

History of RIBI
... in Germany—the future of the RIBI Conference _(he British Council for Aid to
Refugees—aid to Greece—Rotary and the Roman Catholic Church—women relatives ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/library/levy/ - 77k -  

History of Rotary in Poland
As happened elsewhere, some clubs experienced opposition from the Roman Catholic
church. The Bydgoszcz Club in particular recorded that the Church had ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/regions/Poland.htm - 54k -  

Rotary District 6580
The founding four were of US, German, Swedish and Irish ancestry, representing
Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish faiths. There is no evidence to suggest ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/districts/districts/6580.htm - 49k -  

Rotary Global History Fellowship Search for Conflict and War
... was a movement which was not in conflict with any Catholic teaching. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/history/ history/otherorganizations/freemasonry/ - 57k - ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/conflict/search.htm - 130k -  

Search Results for Peace
Later he accepted a Paul Harris Fellowship and a World Understanding and Peace
Award from Rotary, while Catholic priests throughout the world were taking . ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/library/monuments/search.htm - 118k -  

Guayaquil, Equador
... the Social School on watch, when it was transferred to the Catholic University
of Guayaquil so that withdrawn his they can have academic hierarchy. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/countries/equador/ - 56k -  

History of Rotary in Germany
Freemasonry ... in Rotary not the least the then President Tom Sutton who was
himself a Catholic, and former Chancellor Germany Wilhelm Cuno, ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/regions/germany.htm - 72k -  

History of Rotary in the UK and Ireland
of Rotary in some predominantly Catholic countries such as Ireland. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/history/ history/otherorganizations/freemasonry/ - 56k - ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/regions/ukireland.htm - 131k -  

 
 

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