A mitre made by Augustus Welby Pugin for Cardinal Wiseman, 1848. The blog of Westminster Cathedral described it as , "by far the most...

I'm still working on the next post in my latest series, but some friends have asked about my thoughts on current events like the vi...

John Ruskin, the eminent art critic of the Victorian age and contemporary Gothicist to Augustus Welby Pugin, allegedly wrote once that, ...

Sacred vestments can be odd to the desacralized imagination. Especially in their traditional forms, vestments are cumbersome, utterly impra...

Illuminated initial from the Ranworth Antiphonal The Modern Medievalist was busy as the bees sung of during the Exsultet last weekend! ...

Colorized  photo courtesy of Marina Amaral For the 73rd anniversary of the D-Day invasion yesterday, I repost the following presidentia...

Today we enter into the month of June: the month of the Holy Eucharist. The medieval Church might not have gotten everything right, but...