Fr. Andrew Bartus, ordained in July as a priest of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, has received an ordination gift of a set of exquisite white-and-gold Spanish-style vestments. Designed and gifted by Garry South, of Los Angeles, whose hobby for more than 25 years has been designi...

South, a famously pugilistic political strategist, was neither apologizing nor seeking forgiveness as he answered, very much in the affirmative, his own query. "If you hold every practitioner of every profession to a very pure standard of doing the Christian thing," he said, "most people are goin...

Featuring new work in the realm of the liturgical arts is one of our stated goals here at LAJ. After all, we are not only interested in the tradition of liturgical art in its historical manifestations but also in its living one's. Traditional liturgical arts are not, after all, consigned to be m...

Those who have been reading LAJ since its advent may remember Garry South of Holy Threads (see: Garry South: Strategist by Day, Vestment Designer by Night) and for those who have not (or at least cannot recall) you may wish to visit that article to get some of his interesting and unique background....

Next we have Garry South (whom we have featured on here before) who pursues vestment work as a part time hobby (as, professionally, he full time he is a political strategist). Garry's work tends toward the gothic revival and this time he's shared a new cope with us that he designed and which C.M. Al...