The idiomatic expressions “lowering the bar” and its opposite “raising the bar” have their modern-day roots in pole vaulting competitions—although it’s unlikely many of us find our inner dictionaries turning to that reference page, so ingrained is that phrase in our minds... Read More →

  In the year 1219, Pope Honorius III gave the Roman basilica of Santa Sabina on the crown of the Aventine hill to Saint Dominic, to be a church of the Order that Dominic had founded—as it remains today, the Dominican “mother church” in Rome. S. Sabina was built in the... Read More →