EDIT: As I was setting up my Breviary for Lent, I noticed that the name of Ash Wednesday in the Latin is in fact Feria IV Cinerum, which does NOT have the significance I thought it did previously. I apologize…
On April 5, we commemorated the 250th Anniversary of a Priest most people have never heard of, but in whose debt many lovers of history and Ancient Civilization remain: Egidio Forcellini (1688-1768), an Italian philologist and lexicographer, who was the…
Western Education and the Clergy Much ink has been spilled in the past few decades about the so-called collapse of the Western Educational Apparatus. Throughout the late 20th century, many different authors sounded the alarm. Most notably were books by…
What do Julius Caesar, the Popes, Francis Bacon, Galileo, President Thomas Jefferson, St. Jerome, JK Rowling, Friedrich Nietzsche and Mark Zuckerberg all have in common? …They all studied Latin at some point in their lives, the majority to quite an…