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NEW MASONIC GRAND CHAPLAIN IS A ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST ?

So far I haven't been able to find this paper online. Pietre-Stones is a reputable Masonic publication.

A NEW BEGINNING
by the MW Bro. Fabio Venzi, Grand Master of the Regular Grand Lodge of Italy. Address at Grand Lodge meeting - Rome, June 25, 2005
...I would like to finish my address appointing a Grand Officer who will probably remain not only in the history of Italian Freemasonry but also in the history of the worldwide Freemasonry. The Grand Officer I am appointing as Grand Chaplain is a priest of the Roman Catholic Church...

Notice also that on the left column a link has been provided for "New Latin Rituals" in the restricted area.

Thanks to a reader for the link.

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UPDATE

Here is the link to the speech. It concludes with these words:

I would like to finish my address appointing a Grand Officer who will probably remain not only in the history of Italian Freemasonry but also in the history of the world's Freemasonry and I do not think I am wrong. The Grand Officer I am appointing as Grand Chaplain is a priest of the Roman Catholic Church and once again I say of the Roman Catholic Church.


The Regular Grand Lodge of Italy and its Grand Master make, with this act, a gesture of opening. Never has a Masonic Body made such a significant act towards the Roman Catholic Church, dissociating itself from the other irregular Masonic Bodies who, with their anticlericalism, have caused so much damage and harm to the image of worldwide Freemasonry.


We have played our role and we are awaiting for the Church to find the grounds and the patience to be acquainted with the peculiarities and the differences within the variegated world of Freemasonry.

This appears to be a relatively new branch of Italian Freemasonry, founded 13 years ago, and affiliated with the Grand Lodge of England, as opposed to the Grand Orient.

Another article by the Grand Master describes some of the thinking of this new Lodge. It would appear that GM Fabio Venzi is attempting to distance his Lodge from the anti-Catholic thinking for which Freemasonry is so notorious.

Wonder who the priest is, and what the Church is doing, if anything, to foster this development?