Some of My Published Writings

Latest Publications (Updated May 2, 2017)

May 2, "Fr. Rutler’s Peregrinating Essays" at Dappled Things Deep Down Things blog.

The Winter/Spring edition of Latin Mass Magazine includes two articles of mine, which are revised versions of articles I originally posted at Dappled Things blog. You can read or download these articles as  PDFs from Google Drive at "Marian Antiphons: An Introduction" and "Regina Caeli."

March 21,"Lives Interrupted: Six Women and Abortion" at Catholic Stand.

March 18, Opposing Amoris Laetitia: Not Envious Bitterness, But Love and True Mercy at this blog.

March 22, The Miracle and the Hope: Cardinal Kung's Requiem and Burial, at this blog. 

April 10, The Durability of Writing – Anecdotes of a Catholic Author

at Dappled Things Deep Down Things blog.


Partial List of Magazines and Blogs with Links to Individual Articles Below

• Catholic Stand
  

• Latin Mass Magazine
  

• Homiletic and Pastoral Review

• Dappled Things Magazine/Deep Down Things Blog

• Catholic Pundit Wannabe Blog

• New Liturgical Movement Website

• National Catholic Register Newspaper

• Regina Magazine

• Santa Clara Weekly Newspaper

• San Francisco Faith Newspaper

Catholic Stand  E-Publication

March 21, 2017

•  Lives Interrupted: Six Women and Abortion

February 14, 2017

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

The Latin Mass: The Journal of Catholic Culture and Tradition

The Latin Mass is only available by subscription, either in printed or online form. Links in this list are to PDF copies.

Winter/Spring 2017

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

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 a lot of 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. See the Dappled 
        Things article  by the same name for a modified version.

Summer 2014  

• PDF copy of two printed magazine articles: 

• 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.

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

• "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 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.

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

• "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"

• "Queen of Heaven Rejoice, Alleluia! Regina Coeli Part 1: Beyond 'Salve Regina'"
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• "The Dying of the Light"About Tenebrae, a service sung every year during Holy Week

• "Discovering the Camino"

• "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"

• "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

New Liturgical Movement: Sacred Liturgy and Liturgical Arts

• "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

Catholic Pundit Wannabe (Selected Posts)

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

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

• "Ever Hear of the Agatha Christie Indult? It's a Fascinating Story." Selected at BigPulpit.com as one of the featured posts May 16, 2016. 

• "Dante, Rod Dreher, and Medusa"

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

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"

Santa Clara Weekly: Community Newspaper

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

• "Welcome to München Land" and related photos  

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.