Roseanne T. Sullivan's Writings

NOTE: Currently, I post almost exclusively at Roseanne T. Sullivan Substack, to the neglect of this blog. I don't often update this list. However, this list does serve as a record of most of my published writings. However, not all my Substack posts or Catholic Pundit Wannabe posts are linked here.

Links to a selection of my latest writings are directly below.  Scroll down to see a more complete list of publications and a linked list of articles published at each publication. 

  • Why Do Many Catholics Hold Contradictory Beliefs? Let’s Look at One Model of a Modern Moral Theologian, December 17, 2025. Revised from original publication in The Latin Mass, Christmas 2025 issue.

Miscellaneous

  • My Advent Carol performed:  December 15, 2024, Mina Pariseau’s setting of my poem “Our Lady Expectant” was performed for the second time at the Second Annual “Very Marian Prayer Service” at Star of the Sea Church in San Francisco. You can hear the music here. The music for Our Lady Expectant is available for liturgical use for free here. For public performances, contact the composer here.
  • Poetry Reading: In August of  2024, I read a poem of mine at a ZOOM event for finalists and winners of the Assumption of Mary Writing Contest sponsored by Catholic Literary Arts. My poem "Mater Familiarum, Ora Pro Nobis," (Mother of Families, Pray for Us), was chosen as a finalist.
  • In May 2023, I started Roseanne T. Sullivan Substack. To sign up for free email notices whenever new posts are added, you can go here. 
  • In December 2023, I started a second Substack titled History of the St. Ann Choir of Palo Alto CA with a series of posts based on a paper titled, "The Remarkable Sixty-Year Survival of Professor Mahrt's St. Ann Choir.” I delivered the talk at The Musical Shape of the Liturgy” conference November 7 to 9, 2023 to honor Professor William P. Mahrt's contribution to sacred music.  To subscribe and see the complete series of posts, go here. 
  • Poetry Reading: In December 2021, I read a poem of mine at a ZOOM event sponsored by Catholic Literary Arts, on the topic of "Walking with the Mother of God during Advent." You can read it here: "The Baptizer's Baptism."
  • Poetry Reading: In February 2021, at a ZOOM poetry reading, I read a poem of mine, which won First Prize in a Catholic Literary Arts competition, on the topic of "Walking with Christ." The poem is published at Catholic Literary Arts and at Catholic Arts Today. You can read it here: "Mater Dolorosa in Via Crucis."
  • Poetry Reading: In December 2020, I read my poem,"The Love Song of Our Lady of O,"  which won honorable mention in a Catholic Literary Arts competion, at a Zoom reading. The poem was published at Catholic Literary Arts and at Catholic Arts Today. You can read it here.
  • "The Love Song of Our Lady of O" was set as hymn titled: "Our Lady Expectant: an Advent Carol" commissioned by the Benedict XVI Institute from composer Mina Pariseau. The carol premiered at the First Annual Very Marian Advent Prayer Service in November of 2023. I was asked to read the poem before guests at Archbishop Cordileone's residence that evening before dinner. 
  • Became editor of the "Ancient Liturgies—SF Update" newsletter for the Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Liturgy. The first issue was emailed in September 2021. The last issue was emailed June 18, 2024.

  Facebook  

  • Edit the Benedict XVI Institute and  the Catholic Arts Today Facebook pages
  • Edit Immaculate Heart of Mary Oratory, El Camino Real, and St. Ann Choir pages. (Latin Mass Magazine and Keep the Faith pages I previously maintained were removed by request of the publisher.)

Publications List

  • Catholic Arts Today
  • California Catholic Daily
  • Catholic Pundit Wannabe
  • Catholic Stand
  • DaCunha.Global
  • Dappled Things
  • Deep Down Things
  • Homiletic and Pastoral Review
  • Latin Mass
  • Miscellaneous
  • National Catholic Register
  • New Liturgical Movement 
  • Regina Magazine
  • Religion Unplugged
  • Roseanne T. Sullivan Substack
  • Sacred Music Journal
  • Santa Clara Weekly
  • San Francisco Faith
  • The Catholic Thing
  • Also see archived articles linked at:  http://www.geocities.ws/roseannesullivan/

Catholic Arts Today

July 2, 2023
May 9, 2023
October 21, 2022

March 29, 2022
December 10, 2020
  • The Love Song of Our Lady of O

California Catholic Daily

November 29, 2019
June 24th, 2019
March 14th, 2019
January 20, 2019
December 3, 2018
May 28, 2018
March 20, 2018
January 3, 2018
December 20, 2017
December 19, 2017
December 14, 2017
November 19, 2017

Catholic Pundit Wannabe (Selected Posts)

Catholic Stand

March 21, 2017
February 14, 2017

daCunha.Global 

daCunha.Global was a website with "curated stories," where members could access "beautiful, exclusive, and unexpected stories" for a fee. They weren't able to make a go of it and regrettably closed down. 

To read my story in a downloadable PDF, click this link: "They Are Coming to Take Me Away."

Dappled Things, a Quarterly of Ideas,  Art, and Faith (print)

Candlemas 2022
Kudos: Composer Frank La Rocca wrote me when I posted this, "Your article on the Carmel Mission in Dappled Things is simply beautiful in both what it expresses and in the lyrical writing.  Congratulations and thank you." And where I'd shared the post on a Faithful Catholic Musicians' Facebook page, Frank wrote in a comment, "Everyone in this group needs to read this beautifully written essay." 
  • December 24: Happy Birthday Dana Gioia

  • It’s Not Just the Profanity, It’s the Writing: Review of the movie Father Stu

  • Tissot: The Ascension as Seen From Below

  • Tissot: The Ascension as Seen from the Mount of Olives

  • Regina Caeli: Queen of Heaven Rejoice, Alleluia!

  • Part I: Appearances of Christ after the Resurrection, Illustrated by James Tissot

  • Part II: Appearances of Christ after the Resurrection, Illustrated by James Tissot

  • Holy Week Illustrated by James Tissot: Easter Sunday

  • Holy Week Illustrated by James Tissot: Holy Saturday

  • Holy Week Illustrated by James Tissot: Good Friday

  • Holy Week Illustrated by James Tissot: Holy Thursday

  • Holy Week Illustrated by James Tissot: Wednesday

  • Holy Week Illustrated By James Tissot: Tuesday

  • Holy Week Illustrated By James Tissot: Monday

  • Holy Week Illustrated By James Tissot: Palm Sunday

  • Saint Clare: Patron Saint of Silicon Valley.

  • The Squalor of the Stable: A Christmas Eve in Bethlehem

  • If 2020 Was a Nativity Scene

  • The Virgin of Paris and the Conversion of Paul Claudel, On Christmas Eve 1886"

  • “Alma Redemptoris Mater,” the Marian Antiphon for Advent and Christmastide

  • Catholic Apologetics in The Crown?

  • New Romanesque-Style Sculptures at an Oklahoma Monastery with Links to Ancient French Abbeys

  • Remembering Patrick Peyton, the Rosary Priest, With a New Film

  • Books We Loved in 2019, Part One 

  • Books We Loved in 2019, Part Two

  •  Books We Loved in 2019, Part Three

  •  “Mass of the Americas” and the Flourishing of Religious Culture

    • Kudos (from Frank La Rocca): Dear Roseanne, Thank you for applying all your skill as a writer, your lived knowledge and experience of Catholic liturgy, and what must have been score of hours of research and editing to the creation of this article.  I hope you’re as pleased with the results as I am.  And thank you for sort of putting my feet to the fire so that I had to formulate more explicitly things that were lodged in my creative semi-conscious mind regarding certain of the decisions and choices I made. Pax Christi, Frank

  • Notre-Dame for God, La Tour Eiffel for Man

  • 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 Her 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

  • 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

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

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

    The Latin Mass, Journal of Catholic Culture and Tradition 

    The Latin Mass is available by subscription, in printed or online E-editions. Links in this list are to PDF files.

    Spring 2026

    Winter 2025
      • Why Do Many Catholics Hold Contradictory Beliefs? Let’s Look at One Model of a Modern Moral Theologian, December 17, 2025. Revised from original publication in The Latin Mass, Christmas 2025 issue.

      Winter 2024

      Fall 2024 

      Summer 2024
      Fall 2022
      Christmas 2021
      Fall 2021
      Summer 2021 
      Winter/Spring 2021
      Christmas 2020
      Summer 2020
      Winter/Spring 2020
      Winter 2019
      Fall 2019
      Summer 2019Spring 2019
      Christmas 2018
      Summer 2018
      Winter/Spring 2018
      Summer 2017
      Winter/Spring 2017
      Christmas 2017
      Fall 2016
      Summer 2016
      Winter/Spring 2016
      Christmas 2015
      Fall 2015
      Summer 2015
      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 with both articles is here.

      Miscellaneous

      • Poetry Reading: In December, 2020, I read a poem at a ZOOM reading. The poem was one of the top five entries in a poetry contest at Catholic Literary Arts, on the topic of "Waiting with the Mother of God during Advent." It is published at Catholic Literary Arts and at Catholic Arts Today. You can read it here: The Love Song of Our Lady of O.

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

      January 25, 2025
      September 23, 2023
      July 27, 2022
      November 13, 2007
      October 6, 2007  

      New Liturgical Movement: Sacred Liturgy and Liturgical Arts

      New Verse Review

      Regina Magazine: Inspiring, Intelligent, Catholic

                Dana Gioa: "A startling review which I enjoyed!”

      Roseanne T. Sullivan Substack

      Sacred Music Journal

      Santa Clara Weekly: Community Newspaper

      San Francisco Faith

      Dana Gioia told me The Catholic Thing might be interested in an article by me about the Catholic Imagination Conference. After it was published, I was delighted when he commented:

      "This is such a lovely piece and feature. I feel that you have articulated what the conference is and has been better than anyone else. . . .

      "Thank you for bringing all your skill and intelligence to bear."








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