by Christopher HodappNext Tuesday night, April th, I’ll be speaking at Pelham Lodge on City Island in Bronx, New York. I had originally been scheduled to be here last September, but a decidedly UN scheduled broken ankle rent everyone’s best laid plans in twain. My thanks go out to the...

   by Christopher HodappJust in case you came to this site wondering if all of us High Ranking rd Degree Knight Templar Supreme Pontiff Freemasons got safely transported off the Earth by our reptilian allies during Monday’s total solar eclipse, the answer is no. I haven’t checked in with...

   Dennis Quaid as Ronald Reagan Photo: Rawhide Pictures by Christopher HodappAn article appeared on the Oklahoman news site yesterday announcing that a new biopic of former president Ronald Reagan will be released in August this year. Reagan is directed by Sean McNamara Soul Surfer with a modest...

   by Christopher HodappOn Sunday, the assembled brethren of the Gran Logio de Cuba de AL amp;AM Grand Lodge of Cuba voted to expel their sitting Grand Master, Mario Alberto Urquà a Carre o. From the HavanaLive website translated from YMedio.com on March th: Havana The Grand Master of the...

   by Christopher HodappWe Indiana Masons have the good fortune that author, editor, researcher, statistician, magician and Brother, Illus. S. Brent Morris, , has family here in Brownsburg. That means once or twice a year, Brent and his bride Jocelyn wing their way here from their lavish manse in...

   by Christopher HodappThe Guthrie, Oklahoma Valley of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite SJ has one of the most magnificent Masonic buildings in the U.S., and they are understandably proud of their architectural treasure. But Guthrie also is renowned for its outstanding presentations of the...

   by Christopher HodappOn Thursday night, Worshipful Brother Nathan Brindle and I were given our commemorative year pins by the Master, officers and brethren of Broad Ripple Lodge in Indianapolis. I guess the whole city was in on this event just about the time we got pinned, the Civil Defense...

   by Christopher HodappWhat is the proper bit of cutlery you’re supposed to use when eating crow a fork, or a crow bar There are plenty of times when life would be better if we didn’t express our own badly informed opinions out loud. Well, every once in a while, I’m as guilty as the next guy of...

   by Christopher HodappThe Supreme Council of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Northern Masonic Jurisdiction NMJ has just issued a public Statement of Facts in the wake of their investigation and ultimate expulsion of Past Sovereign Grand Commander David Glattly last month. The...

   Elizabeth St Leger Aldworth, Ireland’s Lady Freemasonby Christopher HodappThe famous tale of Ireland’s first ’Lady Freemason,’ Elizabeth St Leger Aldworth, was dramatized in print three years ago by Irish American author Kathleen Aldworth Foster. Her novel, Doneraile Court: The Story of The...

   by Christopher HodappAn intruder was shot and killed in the pre dawn hours of Wednesday morning after breaking into a St. Louis area Masonic lodge building. Police pronounced the suspect dead at the scene. The lodge’s resident called police as soon as the suspect was shot, and is cooperating...

   by Christopher HodappThe Conference of Grand Master Masons of North America more affectionately known as COGMNA officially kicks off its annual meeting in Seattle, Washington today. It’s an opportunity for regular, recognized grand masters in our end of the Masonic world to meet each other and...

   by Christopher HodappUPDATE: SUNDAY, MARCH , , : PM: Several weeks after this story first appeared here on February th, the AASR NMJ Supreme Council publicly released the findings of an independent financial audit, multiple independent investigations of the allegations made...

   by Christopher L. HodappUPDATE: SUNDAY, MARCH , , : PM: Several weeks after this story first appeared here on February th, the AASR NMJ Supreme Council publicly released the findings of an independent financial audit, plus multiple independent investigations of the allegations made...

   by Christopher HodappWB John W. Bizzack, Past Master of Kentucky’s historic Lexington Lodge No. and one of the driving forces behind the Rubicon Masonic Society, was named as the th member of the Society of Blue Friars at Masonic Week in Arlington, Virginia last Friday.The Blue Friars were...

   by Christopher HodappThe International Conference on Freemasonry will be held March th on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley. This will be the th annual academic conference sponsored by the Grand Lodge F amp;AM of California, and the theme this year will be Rites In...

   by Christopher HodappDoes your lodge have a pipe organ sitting in the corner or up on the balcony that’s collecting dust because no one knows how to play it We’ve got six original pipe organs in all of the ceremonial rooms at Indiana Freemasons Hall Indianapolis Masonic Temple, installed in...

   by Christopher HodappOhio’s unique Goose and Gridiron Lodge will host their next meeting on Saturday, April , at the breathtaking Dayton Masonic Center. Lodge will open at noon and the brethren will retire afterwards downstairs to hold their excellent Festive Board. What makes The...

   by Christopher Hodapp Eulogio Mario Carreras V squez, Grand Master of the Gran Logia AA:. LL:. amp; MM:. del Peru Grand Lodge of Ancient Free amp; Accepted Masons of Peru , has just been suspended from the fraternity by his own grand lodge for a five year sentence after conviction...

   Photo: Wikipedia Commonsby Christopher HodappThe Grande Oriente d’Italia Grand Orient of Italy has prevailed in an Italian Supreme Court ruling against the government that restores ownership of their former headquarters. The historic Palazzo Giustiniani was illegally seized in by dictator...

   by Christopher HodappEver wonder what regular, recognized means when it comes to the many grand lodges of Masons all over the world, and just who decides such things I’ll warn you here at the outset: this is one of those Masonic stories that will make your eyes glaze over. It has little or...

   by Christopher HodappUPDATED : AM: Following the original posting of this story on January th, I received documentation that the actual number of grand lodges being shunned by the GL of Florida is now up to , since they also severed relations with the grand lodges of Argentina and...

   Image by Chris Sands from his Facebook page.by Christopher HodappNOTE: This story will be updated as details become available.Word came to me very late Sunday night that Illus. Brother Thurman Cleveland Pace, Jr. and PGM of New Jersey has just passed to the Celestial Lodge. He was just two days...

   Photo: Don Comedyby Christopher HodappNote: This story was updated Monday, January nd at : AM to reflect corrections passed along to me by Texas brethren. Corrections include: a revised list of grand officers who were reelected to the Grand Officer’s lineup and retained from last year;...

   by Christopher HodappThis year’s Midwest Conference on Masonic Education will be held May , in Bloomington, Minnesota in and around the Masonic Heritage Center on the campus of the Minnesota Masonic Home.Grand lodges all over the world have long realized the crying need to impart Masonic...