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by Christopher Hodapp (A brief post from the road as we pass through Gallup, New Mexico...) As the clock ticks down to the GL of Texas annual meeting later this month, a new broadside has been shot across the bow of the Grand Lodge. Texas' Immediate PGM Brad Billings has just filed a...

by Christopher Hodapp When Illus. David Glattly 33° was elected as Sovereign Grand Commander of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Northern Masonic Jurisdiction back in 2017, it was expected that he would serve what has traditionally been a long term of office. He succeeded Illus. John...

by Christopher Hodapp Backroom intrigues continue in the Grand Lodge of Texas as their annual communication approaches in January. The Texas Masons For Truth website is reporting on an unsuccessful attempt by current Grand Master G. Clay Smith and Deputy GM H. Bart Henderson to remove Grand...

by Christopher Hodapp Just a few days after The Texas Masons For Truth website reported on a failed attempt to remove Grand Secretary Justin Duty (photo above) from office at a called meeting of the Grand Lodge Trustees, Texas Grand Master G. Clay Smith apparently has now decided to ignore that...

Brother Robert Wise, 55, was killed in July after officer's installation (Photos: McAllen Lodge 1110 Facebook page) by Christopher Hodapp The family of a Texas Mason who was murdered outside of a Masonic hall following an officers' installation ceremony has just filed a civil lawsuit against...

by Christopher Hodapp Historic Freemasons Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland was damaged last Tuesday when one or more unknown vandals smashed a window and damaged the building's exterior. From a story in the Belfast Telegraph by Niamh Campbell: After the Vatican issued a new statement in...

by Christopher Hodapp WB Roberto Sanchez is an extremely energetic and dedicated Texas Freemason, and has been for more than two decades. He served as Master of Gray Lodge 329 in Houston back in 2006, and was part of a group determined to provide a high-quality lodge experience to their...

by Christopher Hodapp On Saturday, November 25th, all Master Masons are invited to join the Grand Lodge Officers of Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana for the annual Tri-State Degree Exemplification at the magnificent Dayton Masonic Center. The Grand Lodge of Michigan will present the Entered...

by Christopher Hodapp This coming Saturday, November 25th, all Master Masons are invited to join the Grand Lodge Officers of Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana for the annual Tri-State Degree Exemplification at the magnificent Dayton Masonic Center. The Grand Lodge of Michigan will present the...

by Christopher Hodapp Following the statement last week from the Vatican reaffirming the Church's longstanding prohibition of Masonic membership for Catholics, the usual platoon of online anti-Masonic wing-nuts came tumbling out onto the Intertubz to post and re-post all the usual...

by Christopher Hodapp [UPDATE: Yes, I corrected my misspelling of New Briton to New Britain.] The week after Thanksgiving I'll be speaking at the Grand Lodge of Connecticut's 5th District Blue Lodge Council meeting at the hall of Unity Lodge 148 in New Britain, Connecticut. The lodge is...

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...