The Catholic Church first prohibited Catholics from membership in Masonic organizations and other secret societies in 1738. Since then, at least eleven popes have made pronouncements about the incompatibility of Catholic doctrines and Freemasonry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_ban_of_Freemasonry For child-molesting Roman Catholic fascists the worst thing Bavarian Masons contemplated ( but never initiated ) was the inclusion of women.