I've joked before about how the New Liturgical Movement site should declare itself defunct and go into archive mode until the next pont...

Other thoughts first. Apologies for the tangent: There's nothing like a flurry of pope-related news to remind me that I have a blo...

Versailles. Fontainebleau. Windsor Castle. The Tower of London. The Vatican Palace. In the old world, lives were made and broken in the...

(This is technically a day late, but I started on it yesterday.) Happy Memorial Day, medievalists. I have to confess that, despite bein...

I've been remiss in posting, dear friends, but the world still turns whether or not I issue forth a new article every week. This week i...

Dear readers, I announced over a month ago that, on the occasion of the 79th anniversary on the end of Prohibition, I would write an ar...

The past month has set a lot of distractions upon my way, but not to fear: I'm currently working on a piece about alcohol consumption i...