(My parents, in hindsight, gave me quite a bit of bad advice, including their wish that I become a member of something called DeMolay, without, however, explaining to me that it was the youth auxiliary of the Freemasons. Luckily, that went by the board.)
Freemasons, as explained by Salza and Voris, have a somewhat wacky theology that in Catholic terms is syncretist and indifferentist. The Masonic Architect of the Universe is not the God of the Christian creeds. According to Catholic Answers,
Masonry is a parallel religion to Christianity. The New Catholic Encyclopedia states, "Freemasonry displays all the elements of religion, and as such it becomes a rival to the religion of the Gospel. It includes temples and altars, prayers, a moral code, worship, vestments, feast days, the promise of reward or punishment in the afterlife, a hierarchy, and initiation and burial rites."Voris in particular points out that Leo XIII's encyclical Humanum Genus extends the condemnation of Freemasonry to "other societies of the same sort, which plot against the Church or against legitimate civil authority". In Voris's view, this includes contemporary globalist groups like the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bilderberg group, which tend to advocate a world government or supergovernmental entities like the EU.
In this context, President-elect Trump's anti-globalist positions have more resonance. While it's generally acknowledged that Trump is not a churchgoer and has broad ignorance of Christianity, he's had wide support from evanglicals like Franklin Graham, as well as tacit endorsement from Catholics who see his prospective Supreme Court nominations as more likely to preserve protections for the unborn and free exercise of Catholic religion. He obtained a clear majority of all observant Christians in the election.
It appears that his opposition to globalism is also a Catholic-friendly position.
