In Progress. Preface: On Oaths I am not a Mason, nor a professor at a Catholic college, having given priority to the saying of Jesus, ..."do not swear at all" (Matthew 5:34). Hence, we will not bind ourselves by oaths of fidelity, obedience or secrecy. Thomas Jefferson, too was not a Mason, because he would not swear an oath. Madison in his remonstrance gives the reason, too: What we owe to God, we cannot give to men. That said, the Catholics and the Masons were the two group