President-elect Barack Obama’s swearing-in Tuesday will incorporate several elements out of America’s Masonic past. One-third of the signers of the Constitution, many of the Bill of Rights signers and ...

Guns, a guillotine and mechanical rat traps played a regular role in a secret Masonic ritual that turned deadly for a Long Island man, police said yesterday. Initiates to the Fellowcraft Club of the ...

Secrets, codes, hidden treasures and lost religions. We just can't seem to get enough, including movies like National Treasure and The Da Vinci Code, which both swirled around secrets of the Knights ...

2004-03-10 04:00:00 PDT Patchogue, N.Y.-- The initiation rituals at the Masonic lodge here had been bathed in secrecy over the years. The climax of Monday night's ceremony was to be a simple prank. A ...

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y., March 10 (UPI) -- Members of a New York Masonic lodge grieved Wednesday over the shooting death of a man who was being initiated into the group. William James, 47, was sitting in ...

A few MPs flouted a ban on taking photos inside Parliament this week, as they tweeted about the Brexit vote. Kelly Grovier finds echoes in an 18th-Century painting of a Masonic lodge. Some rituals are ...

A. The short answer is sometimes. Permit me to explain. Since the early 18th century, the Catholic Church has consistently prohibited Catholics from membership in the Masons (also called Freemasons*).