New Advent Blog Let It Linger, Hail Caesar, and the Politics of Heraldry...

The Twelve Days of Christmas are over, though we still have the feast of the Baptism of the Lord to look forward to this weekend. So I am holding on to the trappings of the season — if not always the spirit of it — as tightly as I can for a few more days yet. I’m pleased to note that around where I live there are still a good few holdouts with their decorations up...