My Published Writings

(Updated  July 26, 2019)

NOTE: The first part of this page lists my recent writings. To find a more-complete list, scroll down to the heading: "Publications List," and click a publication's name to see a linked list of articles at that publication.

Since my last update on February 9, 2019, I've published the following:

California Catholic Daily
Chant camp at St. Patrick Seminary, July 23-25
Traditional Latin Mass returns to Nativity Church, Menlo Park

Catholic Pundit Wannabe (This blog)
Dorothy Day on Abortion: Forgiveness for Repented Sins, Yes. Approval of Sins, No
Sacred Music Proponent William Peter Mahrt's 80th Birthday

Deep Down Things Blog
Dorothy Day: Future Patron Saint of Women Who Regret Abortions? 

Homiletic and Pastoral Review
The Color Pink and Abortion Glee: Toward Comprehending the Incomprehensible Events in New York on January 22, 2019 (reprinted with small changes from Latin Mass Magazine)
Father George Rutler's Calm in Chaos: Catholic Wisdom for Anxious Times: A Review Essay

In The Latin Mass Magazine:
Women and Abortion: Debunking the Myth of Consequence-Free Sex
The Color Pink and Abortion Glee: Toward Comprehending the Incomprehensible Events in New York on January 22, 2019

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Publications List

• California Catholic Daily

• Catholic Stand 

• DaCunha.Global

• Dappled Things Magazine/Deep Down Things Blog

• Catholic Pundit Wannabe Blog

• Homiletic and Pastoral Review

• Latin Mass Magazine

• New Liturgical Movement Website

• National Catholic Register Newspaper

• Regina Magazine

• Santa Clara Weekly Newspaper

• San Francisco Faith Newspaper

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California Catholic Daily

June 24th, 2019

• Chant camp at St. Patrick Seminary, July 23-25

March 14th, 2019

• Traditional Latin Mass returns to Nativity Church, Menlo Park

January 20, 2019

• "Heroic and subversive Rene Girard honored at USF"

December 3, 2018

• "Latin High Mass returns to Mission Santa Clara Church for an evening" 

May 28,2018

• "Crowds witness consecration of rebuilt Holy Cross Church in San Jose"

March 20,2018 

• "A leading voice of fidelity in the Church/"  

January 3, 2018

• "Catholic choir keeps a toe-hold in Clare Boothe Luce’s Modernist chapel in Palo Alto"

 December 20, 2017

• "Don’t worry, mom: Thomas Aquinas College students report on their experience half a mile away from the Thomas Fire"
  

December 19, 2017 

•  "Palo Alto's secret gift to the Church"

December 14, 2017

•  "‘Tis the season for Alma Redemptoris Mater"

November 19, 2017  

•  "‘The Holy Man of Santa Clara:  Traditional Latin Mass for canonization cause of Fr. Magin Catala"
  

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Catholic Pundit Wannabe (Selected Posts)

• "Dorothy Day on Abortion: Forgiveness for Repented Sins, Yes. Approval of Sins, No"

•  "Sacred Music Proponent William Peter Mahrt's 80th Birthday"

•  "Mass Below a Miraculous Crucifix that Embraced the Holy Man of Santa Clara"

• "Love and Not Love At the Movies" 

• "Questions About the Coming Consecration of California to Mary"

• "Ecce Agnus Dei: The Priest's Fourth Turn Away from the Altar during the Traditional Latin Mass"

• "Father Rutler Sets Me Straight About the Altar of Sacrifice"

•  "Opposing Amoris Laetitia: Not Envious Bitterness, But Love and True Mercy"

• "The Miracle and the Hope: Cardinal Kung's Requiem and Burial"

• "Atheists Bring Down a Historic Cross in Santa Clara, CA" 

• "Unequal Rights for Women"

• "Ever Hear of the Agatha Christie Indult? It's a Fascinating Story."   

• "First Comes Love .... Not Anymore!"

• "Do You Ever Wonder Why Prominent Catholics Openly Defy Church Doctrine?" 

• "Dante, Rod Dreher, and Medusa"

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Catholic Stand

March 21, 2017

•  Lives Interrupted: Six Women and Abortion

February 14, 2017

• "Abortion, Underlying Myths, and a Skewed Idea About Mercy" 

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daCunha.Global

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To read my story go to daCunha.Global, enter https://dacunha.global/theyre-coming-to-take-me-away/ in a separate tab, or search for the title "They Are Coming to Take Me Away." To read my story in a downloadable PDF, click the image on this link: "They Are Coming to Take Me Away."

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Deep Down Things Blog at Dappled Things, a Quarterly of Ideas, Art, and Faith

• "Dorothy Day: Future Patron Saint of Women Who Regret Abortions?"

• “Sherlock Holmes is Transported by a Rose": It is only goodness which gives extras.

•  "Not the St. Paul I Know and Love: Review of 'Paul the Apostle of Christ'”

• "The Case of the Latest 'Murder on the Orient Express'”

• "What a Divine Place! The Catholic Faith in An Affair to Remember"

• "The Crucifix That Keeps On Coming Back"

•  "Who Knows? The Truth About Pope Pius XI and His Much-Maligned Successor"

•  "Happy Birthday, Graham Greene: Paradoxical Catholic Writer" 

• "The Conflict: A 1973 Movie Grapples with Doctrinal Change"

• "Fr. Rutler’s Peregrinating Essays"

• "The Durability of Writing – Anecdotes of a Catholic Author"

• "Runaway Pope: The Saint Dante Condemned to Hell’s Antechamber"

• "Sub Tuum Praesidium, the Earliest Prayer To She Whose Offspring is God" 

• "The Shifting Debate About Euthanasia and Eugenics: Some Other Words for Murder"

• "Peacock Memories: Flannery O’Connor and the King of Birds

• "When a Royal Physician Killed a King

• When the Bad Guy Samaritan Loved His Jewish Neighbor"

• "Bishop Kung Was Tricky That Way, and Other Stories of the Saintly, Stubborn, Persecuted Ignatius Ping-Mei Kung of Shanghai"

• "Thanks for the Memories, Mother Angelica"

• "Peter and John Race to Christ’s Tomb"

• "It’s Curtains for Poirot! I Wept, But Not for the Reasons You Might Think"

• "Sudden World-Wide Adulation of a Man Who Rose from Nowhere: Where Have We Seen This Before?"

• "Hail, O Queen of the Heavens! The Marian Antiphon for This Time of the Year" Ave Regina Caelorum—Part III of Beyond “Salve Regina

• "Who Came Down from the Stars? The Baby God, That’s Who!"

• "History and Mystery: The O Antiphons in a Favorite Hymn"

• "The New Math of Christmas"

• “Alma Redemptoris Mater”—Part II: Beyond “Salve Regina"

• "What’s Ordinary in ChurchSpeak?"

• "Sleuthing Out the Decidedly Odd Books of William Byrd"

• "Singing Goodbye to the Alleluia" 

• "Going to Italy and Coming Back Again"

• "The Christmas Eve I Met St. Francis in Assisi"

• "Top Ten Thoughts about Advent from Fr. Rutler"

• "Taking the Eucharist to the Streets"

• "Marian Antiphons: An Introduction" 

• "Queen of Heaven Rejoice, Alleluia! Regina Coeli Part 1: Beyond 'Salve Regina'"

• "The Dying of the Light"About Tenebrae, a service sung every year during Holy Week

• "Discovering the Camino"

• "Carmelites Visit Mount Carmel, Part I"

• "Carmelites Visit Mount Carmel, Part II"

• "Carmelites Visit Mount Carmel, Part III"

• "My First and Last Resort (Mazatlán) – Part I: From the Golden Zone to the Dump Zone"

• "My First and Last Resort (Mazatlán) - Part II: Buying Souvenirs Mazatlán Style and a Hot Night at Señor Frog's"

• "My First and Last Resort (Mazatlán) - Part III: Parasailing in Mazatlán, Pleasures and Perils"

• "Sure and His Was a Wonderful Life: Part I: Magonus Succetus: The Boy Who Would Be St. Patrick, Apostle of Ireland"

• "Sure and His Was a Wonderful Life: Part II: Did St. Patrick Drive the Snakes Out of Ireland?"

• "Sure and His Was a Wonderful Life: Part III: St. Patrick’s Vision of the Dimming of Ireland’s Faith"

• "Delaying Gratification for Deeper Joy"

• "Sleeping Beauty's Mother-in-Law Was a Real Ogre" 

• "The Supreme Beauty of Spiritual Things": Article about the beauty and significance of the Pontifical Latin Mass celebrated by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone in San Francisco in September 2014.

• "February 2: A Feast Of Manifestation Purification and Candles" About Candlemas. Well-known writer Amy Welborn quoted this article and wrote, "Another great piece from Roseanne T. Sullivan in Dappled Things."

• "On the Thirteenth Day of Christmas 20 + K + M + B + 14": Blog about Epiphany

• "The Squalor of the Stable": About Christmas Eve in modern Bethlehem

• "Singing Goodbye to the Alleluia"

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The Latin Mass: The Journal of Catholic Culture and TraditionThe Latin Mass magazine is only available by subscription, in printed or online form. Links in this list are to PDF files.

Spring 2019

• The Color Pink and Abortion Glee: Toward Comprehending the Incomprehensible Events in New York on January 22, 2019

Christmas 2018:  

• "Soul of Father Magin, Help Us: The Wonder Working Lesser-Known Missionary of the California Missions"

Summer 2018:  

•  "An Interview with His Excellency, Bishop Athanasius Schneider" 

Winter/Spring 2018:  

•  "Sacred Music Retreat to Bring Singers and Acclaimed Specialists Together This Summer"

Summer 2017: 

• "Sub Tuum Praesidium: The Earliest Prayer to Her Whose Offspring is God"

Winter/Spring 2017

• "Marian Antiphons: An Introduction" 
•  "Regina Caeli."  

Christmas 2017    

•  "Why Does the Modern Age Need the Mass of the Ages?"
• "Alma Redemptoris Mater the Marian Antiphon for Advent and Christmas"

Fall 2016

• "The Fascinating Story of the Agatha Christie Indult"

Summer 2016

• "What We Can Learn From Shanghai's Oppressed Catholics," (Part 3 of "Three Books for Catholics Contemplating the Times In Which We Live)

Winter/Spring 2016

• A Dystopian Fiction Dubbed Prophetic by Two Popes: Lord of the World (Part 2 of "Three Books for Catholics Contemplating the Times In Which We Live)

Christmas 2015

• "Liturgical Year: The New Math of Christmas" 

• "The Surprising Utopian Socialism of Saint Thomas More and Its Long-Reaching Effects" (Part 1 of "Three Books for Catholics Contemplating the Times in Which We Live")

Fall 2015

• "Hebdomada Tranquilla et Jucunda cum Familia Sancti Hieronymi: A Peaceful and Joyful Latin Holiday with the Family of St. Jerome"

Since I own the rights, I've posted a slightly edited version with more photos here. Summer 2015

• "The Supreme Beauty of Spiritual Things"

Article about the beauty and significance of the Pontifical Latin Mass celebrated by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone in San Francisco in September 2014. Summer 2014

•  An interview with Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone: “Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone Leading by Example,” and an accompanying article titled “San Francisco’s Archbishop Cordileone and the Traditional Latin Mass," about the archbishop's initiatives to improve liturgy in the Bay Area. A PDF copy of two printed magazine articles is here.

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Homiletic and Pastoral Review: America's Foremost Pastoral Publication, Since 1900

• The Color Pink and Abortion Glee: Toward Comprehending the Incomprehensible Events in New York on January 22, 2019 (reprinted with small changes from Latin Mass Magazine) May 31, 2019

• Father George Rutler's Calm in Chaos: Catholic Wisdom for Anxious Times: A Review February 12, 2019

• "Kazakhstan Bishop Schneider Broadcasts Seeds of Faith Around the World," May 18, 2018 

• "Who Knows? The Truth About Pope Pius XI and His Much Maligned Successor" February 24, 2018

• ""Is There Really Any Hope for a Return to the Traditional Latin Mass? Interview with Dr. Peter Kwasniewski"" December 12, 2017

• "In Heaven There is Only Singing:  A Review of Two of Father Rutler's Books, and an Interview with the Author," August 19, 2017

• "Index Lectionum: Scripture Usage in Roman Catholic Masses Before and After Vatican II," January 20, 2017.

• "Teaching Silently, Reaching the World Through a Hidden Life of Suffering: An Interview with Raymond Arroyo on Mother Angelica: Her Grand Silence," August 29, 2016.  A longer version is also published here at my blog.

• "Sometimes It’s Best to Cover Your Eyes," May 14, 2016. A longer version of this same article was published as Dante, Rod Dreher, and Medusa , Catholic Pundit Wannabe, May 16, 2016. 

• "Propers of the Mass Versus the Four-Hymn Sandwich" (January 15, 2016)

See the following three links where the article and interview have been published separately.

• "Propers of the Mass Versus the Four- Hymn Sandwich"(modified version on this blog)

• Fr. Samuel Weber’s “The Proper of the Mass": An Interview with Dr. Peter Kwasniewski (modified version on this blog)

• Fr. Samuel Weber’s “Propers of the Mass”: An Interview with Dr. Peter Kwasniewski by Roseanne Sullivan (posted at New Liturgical Movement)

• Review of Proclamation and Celebration: Preaching on Christmas, Easter, and other Festivals under "Summer Reading for June 2015."  PDF file of the review edited to reduce the need to scroll.

• Review of The Romance of Religion by Fr. Dwight Longenecker, under "Spring Reading for March 15, 2015, Homiletic and Pastoral Review. PDF file of the review edited to reduce the need to scroll.

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New Liturgical Movement: Sacred Liturgy and Liturgical Arts

• "Why Does the Modern Age Need the Mass of the Ages?" An Interview with Peter Kwasniewski by Roseanne T. Sullivan
  

•  “'In Heaven, There Is Only Singing'" An Interview with Fr George Rutler"
• "Mother Angelica’s Funeral Mass, the Triumph of Latin, Chant, and Ad Orientem at EWTN"

• "Fr. Samuel Weber’s Propers of the Mass: An Interview with Dr. Peter Kwasniewski"

• "The Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music" - Guest Article by Roseanne T. Sullivan

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National Catholic Register Newspaper: America’s Most Complete and Faithful Catholic News Source

November 13, 2007    

• "Gregorian Champ" PDF with originally printed photos  

• "Gregorian Champ" archived version without photos    

• "Chant Survivor William Mahrt: Anno quadragesimo quarto" unedited version with photos  

October 6, 2007  

• "Sweetness and Light:What Drives Some Jews to Christ": NCR archived article about Roy Schoeman, author of Salvation is from the Jews and Honey from the Rock (Ignatius Press), from an interview I had with him at his home. 

• "Roy Schoeman Interview - The Complete Version" unedited version of interview

• "Roy Schoeman and the Return of the Jews: From a Jewish Perspective Within the Catholic Faith" unedited version of article

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Regina Magazine: Inspiring, Intelligent, Catholic

• "New California Men’s Order Will Teach Roman Liturgy": Article about the Contemplatives of St. Joseph in Formation in South San Francisco

• "After 50 Years, There’s a TLM in San Francisco": Article about the regularly scheduled first Sunday-morning Extraordinary Form Mass in San Francisco after five decades.

• "New Liturgical Institute in San Francisco"

• "How Joan Came Home"

• "Winter at Saint Benedict Abbey (Still River MA)"

• "Not Just Christmas Carols: William Byrd’s Secret Catholic Masterpieces"

• "Veiling in America"

• "Miracle in Palo Alto: How The St. Ann Choir Kept Chant and Polyphony Alive for 50 Years"

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Santa Clara Weekly: Community Newspaper

• "Peace in the City: Carmelite Monastery's 90th Year in Santa Clara"

• "Welcome to München Land" and related photos  

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San Francisco Faith

• "It's One Long Purification What Mother Angelica Taught Raymond Arroyo" and related photos 

• "Is Penance Relevant? What San José Diocese Teaches Lay Leaders about the Sacraments" 

• "Ordination's No Object: San José Diocese's Continuing Revolution" 

• "No Recipe for Morality: Says Bay Area Jesuit" 

• "Another Name for Pastor: The Direction of Lay Ministry in the Diocese of San Jose" -- with sidebar: Data Raw or Cooked?   Published under the nom de plume, Ingrid Hofer.

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