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by Christopher Hodapp News came this morning that Ill. Brother Michael Duane Smith, Sr. 33°, Lt. Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite SJ, SGIG and Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of South... For the latest news and information from around the Masonic world, be sure to check the...

Huguenot Lodge 381 Masonic Temple on Main Street in Tottenville, Staten Island by Christopher Hodapp The Staten Island Live website posted a pictorial survey this weekend of several current and... For the latest news and information from around the Masonic world, be sure to check the...

by Christopher Hodapp A Vancouver man has been sentenced to three years in prison in British Columbia, Canada after pleading guilty to setting three arson fires in Masonic halls on March 30th this... For the latest news and information from around the Masonic world, be sure to check the...

by Christopher Hodapp Many Masons throughout North America know RW George O. Braatz and his wife Marilyn. Word came this week that Marilyn passed away Monday night, October 25th, at their home... For the latest news and information from around the Masonic world, be sure to check the...

by Christopher Hodapp I've had three different sources attending the Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge of Georgia F&AM today inform me that the assembled brethren voted overwhelmingly to... For the latest news and information from around the Masonic world, be sure to check the...

by Christopher Hodapp We had a saying around our film production studio for many, many years: "Where do great ideas come from? Somebody else!" It's a fact of life that not every Masonic temple can... For the latest news and information from around the Masonic world, be sure to check the...

by Christopher Hodapp UPDATED 9/8/2021 As Katherine Hepburn famously quipped in The Lion In Winter, "What family doesn't have its little ups and downs..." I was hoping for at least one good... For the latest news and information from around the Masonic world, be sure to check the...

by Christopher Hodapp Turlock Masonic Lodge 236 in Turlock, California got some decent coverage in the local paper this morning. The lodge is bringing back their youth groups, which have been... For the latest news and information from around the Masonic world, be sure to check the...

by Christopher Hodapp That took almost no time at all. In the wake of the official decisions regarding the Great Priory of America CBCS issued last week by Grand Master Michael Johnson of the Grand... For the latest news and information from around the Masonic world, be sure to check the...

by Christopher Hodapp Most Masons who read the literature of the fraternity are well acquainted with the classic, must-have works that were primarily published in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries... For the latest news and information from around the Masonic world, be sure to check the...

by Christopher Hodapp It seems that the troublesome Grand Encampment/CBCS/Great Priory of America issue continues to rise up like the ghostly mists and miasmas that drift over once-bloody ancient... For the latest news and information from around the Masonic world, be sure to check the...

by Christopher Hodapp The second official trailer for the upcoming TV series, Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol has been released. Episode 1 premieres on Thursday, September 16th on the Peacock streaming... For the latest news and information from around the Masonic world, be sure to check the...

by Christopher Hodapp IIllus. Peter J. Samiec 33° (photo above) has been elected and installed today as Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite Northern Masonic... For the latest news and information from around the Masonic world, be sure to check the...

by Christopher Hodapp Back in March, the assembled members of the Grand Lodge F&AM of Tennessee voted in favor of joint recognition with the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of... For the latest news and information from around the Masonic world, be sure to check the...

by Christopher Hodapp Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana is now home to the newly established Center for Fraternal Collections & Research (CFCR), headed up by Dr. Heather... For the latest news and information from around the Masonic world, be sure to check the...

by Christopher Hodapp In the late 1880s, Sir Knight George Cooper Connor of Tennessee made a florid, handwritten transcript of the rituals of the Masonic Knights Templar Orders of the Red Cross,... For the latest news and information from around the Masonic world, be sure to check the...

NOTE - My apologies for the delay of this post. I've been experiencing tech issues off and on for several weeks and this one somehow got caught in a queue that said it was published when it really... For the latest news and information from around the Masonic world, be sure to check the...

by Christopher Hodapp Regardless of what your personal opinion may be concerning news about the resurgence of COVID infections and the controversies swirling around masks, lockdowns and vaccines,... For the latest news and information from around the Masonic world, be sure to check the...

by Christopher Hodapp The newly resurrected Masonic Book Club (MBC) has announced its upcoming second volume: a new edition of Samuel Pritchard's 1730 Masonic exposure, Masonry Dissected, featuring... For the latest news and information from around the Masonic world, be sure to check the...

by Christopher Hodapp On July 19th, MW Jeffrey S. Foster, the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Florida F&AM, issued a letter condemning human rights violations in Cuba, and encouraging all... For the latest news and information from around the Masonic world, be sure to check the...