Perhaps no other organisation has inspired such suspicion as that of the Freemasons. They have been blamed for everything from the Whitechapel murders to attempting to bring down the Vatican, but do they really deserve the condemnation that is so readily heaped upon them After all, they are supposed to be a brotherhood with an abiding principle of charity and equality among men. So how did they come then to be seen, in the words of Pope Leo XIII, as shrewd and malicious men