I quicky did the popes numrology to see if it said "freemason" instead I got this...

Numerology for benedict
In Your Public Life...
Words that embody your presence are "Aurora, Beauty, Bitter, Chariot, Cocktail, Craving, Cross, Dazzle, Energy, Jury, Melody, Messiah, Occult, Opium, Pinnacle, Tantra, Tarot, Vassal, Vixen, Weapon".
Words that embody the people or things that you interact with are "Beast, Defiance, Judge, Luck, Mink, Omen, Radio, Rock, Seer, Time".

Words that embody people or things in your periphery are "Authority, Compulsion, Intimidation, Sterility".


In Your Spiritual Life...
Words that embody the people or things that you interact with are "Philosophy".
Words that embody things that may be a part of you are "Affair, Alien, Camera, Chance, Coin, Cold, Demand, Dream, Duke, Globe, Grace, Hate, Heat, Home, Joke, Key, King, Leap, Lock".

Words that embody people or things in your periphery are "Barrier, Bond, Brain, Breakthrough, Bubble, Chicken, Clock, Decadence, Desert, Execution, Eye, Facet, Faith, Fellowship, Flattery, Hope, Hypnosis, Ice, Leopard, Machine, Mask, Microscope, Monk, Mountain, Mystery, Navigator, Nose, Roulette, Scarab, Scheme, Snow, Space, Sphere, Spider, Target, Vanilla, Vodka".

This indicates that hes not a freemason. But that he has knowledge of the occult. Although there is the royal link, with the king and hypnosis again! It shows he will have also something to do with the messiah. All kinda spooky..