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by Christopher Hodapp The Roman Catholic Church has officially issued a doctrinal letter this week re-affirming its longstanding ban on Masonic membership among its global flock, but Catholic Masons pretty much remain unmoved by the restriction. In the letter released by the Vatican's...

by Christopher Hodapp If you are anywhere near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania next weekend, consider attending historic Good amaritan Lodge 336 on Sunday night for their 2nd annual Dinner With A Civil War Soldier. The lodge is located at 7 Lincoln Square (right on the town square downtown)...

by Christopher Hodapp (From the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts Facebook page. As an old ad guy, I have to say I really like their tag line: "Same Men. Different Times." CH) The Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts has partnered with the Massachusetts Sons of the American Revolution and the...

by Christopher Hodapp The Supreme Council 33° of the Ancient and Accepted Rite for England and Wales (what American Masons know as the Scottish Rite) announced a significant policy change in its jurisdiction this week. Following a National Conference of Inspectors General, a letter was issued...

by Christopher Hodapp The suspect arrested in the murder of a Freemason outside of the Masonic Hall in McAllen, Texas last July attended a hearing Monday in which his defense attorney asked the trial judge for more time to research his client's mental competency. Julio Diaz, 35, of Alamo...

by Christopher Hodapp The Hanley Masonic Hall in Snow Hill, Stoke-On-Trent, in the province of Staffordshire, England was set ablaze Sunday night after a gang of masked youths were seen breaking a window and hurling a lit firework through it. Fortunately, no one was in the building at the...

by Christopher Hodapp After the shameful episode that happened on the floor of the annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of Texas in January, many had hoped that cooler heads would prevail and that brethren on both sides of the idealogical and generational divide would find some rapprochement...

by Christopher Hodapp A post on the George Washington Masonic National Memorial Facebook page reminds us that Sunday is the 271st anniversary of George Washington's initiation or "making" as a Freemason. George was made an Entered Apprentice Mason at the age of twenty in the Lodge at...

by Christopher Hodapp Kadum Harwood (photo above), the suspected arsonist who attacked the Chattanooga (Tennessee) Masonic Center in September has now been indicted on two federal felony counts by a U.S. grand jury. This is in addition to charges filed by Hamilton County, Tennessee of...

by Christopher Hodapp I haven't seen Martin Scorsese's newest film, Killers of the Flower Moon, but Reddit and the Intertubz lit up all week long over a bizarre scene that takes place in a very real Oklahoma Masonic hall. The movie is about a unique moment in the mid-1920s that dramatically...

by Christopher Hodapp Illus. Kamel Oussayef 33° has just released a new book through the Scottish Rite Northern Masonic Jurisdiction as part of an ongoing program of rediscovering a treasure trove of 18th and 19th century French Masonic manuscripts. Entitled Freemasonry From the 1st to the...

by Christopher Hodapp I'll be speaking on Saturday, October 28th at the Goose and Gridiron Lodge 1717 meeting and Festive Board in Dayton, Ohio. See the lodge website for details. Registration ends on October 18th. On Friday night there will be a pre-event gathering at Jimmies Ladder 11 from...

by Christopher Hodapp Just a reminder that I'll be speaking this Saturday, October 28th at the Goose and Gridiron Lodge 1717 meeting and Festive Board in Dayton, Ohio. See the lodge website for details. On Friday night there will be a pre-event gathering at Jimmies Ladder 11 from 6PM-9PM -...

by Christopher Hodapp Brother Darin Lahners over at the Midnight Freemason blog has written an important essay this week that was inspired by the meme above. I had been working on my own essay along similar lines all week, but Darin has done a far better job than I was doing. Entitled, Why...

by Christopher Hodapp The 2023 Scottish Rite Research Society Symposium is being held on the Indiana University campus in Bloomington, Indiana tomorrow, Saturday, October 14. The event will be held at the new Center for Fraternal Collections & Research (CFCR) in the McCalla Building...

by Christopher Hodapp In the wake of the horrific terrorist attacks on Israel this past weekend, the Grand Lodge of the State of Israel AF&AM has posted a statement on its Facebook page acknowledging the enormous outpouring of support by the world's Freemasons. Click the image below to...

by Christopher Hodapp On Tuesday last week, the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge F&AM of New York conferred the Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason degrees upon New York City Mayor Eric Adams in a special ceremony. Also raised at this event was the city's Police...

by Christopher Hodapp I'm furious that a stupid stumble wound up keeping me home from an event that was so important to the four portly gents in this old picture. Fifteen years and way too many banquet dinners ago, there were these four Indiana troublemakers: an extremely overweight Dummy...

by Christopher Hodapp Back in July, the Scottish Rite Supreme Council of Greece building in Athens suffered limited damage after a bomb exploded outside the entrance. A second device was safely detonated outside of the adjacent Grand Lodge of Greece building. A suspect was arrested on July...

by Christopher Hodapp The lone suspect in the Labor Day arson fire that heavily damaged the Masonic Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee has been bound over for trial, and his bail has been raised to $450,000. On Monday, Judge Lila Statom bound all charges of the Grand Jury against Kadum Hunter...