The Guild Review

Tomorrow is the Solemnity of Christ the King, instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925.  Coming on the final Sunday of the liturgical year, it is ...

In an age when controversies and commentary happen at the speed of Twitter, I do not profess to have kept up with all the twists and turns...

This song needs no preface.

I am not a Southerner, but I am something of a guest of the South. Although an Arizona native, I went to school in Texas (twice), ...

A little while ago my wife and I began watching Indian Summers , a show about the British Raj's annual move to Simla, in the foothills...

Franklin Debrot's debut novel, Journey to Colonus , though a work of historical fiction long in the making, is a work for the present ...

Tomorrow is the birthday of Friedrich von Steuben, a German aristocrat and soldier who came to the infant United States to assist in the War...

Husband, father, scholar, statesman, martyr. "Often it happens that just as a lot of foolishness is uttered with ornate and polish...

Today is Queen Victoria's birthday, a public holiday in Canada (observed on the preceding Monday) and the anchor point for the movin...

Today is Presidents Day. Typically we remember Washington and Lincoln, doubtless two of our finest. Sometimes the likes of Jefferson, FDR,...

My modest little monograph, Rediscovering Irregular Warfare: Colin Gubbins and the Origins of Britain's Special Operations Executive , w...

Spiritually we seem to be in an enormous vacuum. Humanly speaking there is the same burning question - what is the point of it all? And in...

Far more than a civilization or a rich heritage was lost when the universal order went the way of medieval and ancient civilizations.  Weste...

A couple months ago I read an article on cognitive fitness which encouraged various activities to keep the mind strong and limber: music, ex...

I understand the sentiments behind flying the Confederate Battle Flag (or, at least some of them). People are fed up with excessive federal...

Thursday was the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord. But in most of the United States it is celebrated today. Ever wonder who gets to ...

Guy Fawkes Day, also known as Bonfire Day, is a curious holiday.  It commemorates the failure on 5 November 1605 of the Gunpowder Plot, a sc...

As you might have guessed, I am a bibliophile.  I collect not only physical books but also lists of them: favorite books of various genres, ...

Six years ago I wrote a post about St. Paul's admonition to the Ephesians to "hold faith as a shield, to quench all [the] flaming a...

Today we celebrate the Feast of St. Athanasius (c. 297-373).  While most Christians know the Nicene Creed and the Apostles Creed, less wel...