[2] He graduated from McGill–Toolen Catholic High School in 1949, then known as McGill Institute,[3] where there is an athletic complex named in his honor.

[3] Lipscomb served as a parish priest in Mobile and as an educator at McGill Institute and Spring Hill College.

[6] Lipscomb came into the national spotlight in the United States in the early 1990s due to the controversy involving the Reverend David Trosch, a priest of the archdiocese serving in Magnolia Springs, a community in south Baldwin County southeast of Mobile.

[7] Trosch sparked the controversy by his anti-abortion statements advocating the theory of justifiable homicide in the case of killing abortion providers, and his attempt to place an advertisement in the Mobile Press-Register newspaper with his original cartoon showing a man pointing a gun at a doctor who was holding a knife over a pregnant woman.

[7] Trosch maintained a website under the name of a non-profit organization called "Life Enterprises Unlimited" based in Mobile until the time of his death, in which he criticized many people whom he characterized as "hell-bound sinners" including Archbishop Lipscomb.