The War on Wigs.

The article looks back at the Catholic Church's ban on wigs among priests and its underlying context. It cites the petition made by parish priest Antonio Piervenanzi in 1716 to wear a wig out of medical necessity. It raises Pope Benedict XIII's critique of wearing a wig as a misguided, unholy attachment to the secular, as well as the argument from wig critics that it broke an injunction in the sacred law of the Church.