As a psychosis, "self-mutilation syndrome" is rooted in self-loathing and obsessive-compulsive behavior.

England in the early 17th century was undergoing a significant religious crisis.

In medieval and early modern Europe, healthcare — especially for those with chronic illnesses — was an improvised and often neglected affair.

There are few of us, I should imagine, who would care very much to have their thoughts at the age of twenty about life, literature and the world, exposed to public view and widely disseminated. 

When people forget God, when they come to suppose that they don't need Him or His grace and guidance, when they fall into the hubristic error of imagining that they are too smart and sophisticated to believe in Him, a catastrophe always ensues.

It's been said that you should live your life not to fill your resume, but to fill your eulogy. 

Robert Gould Shaw was born into an abolitionist Unitarian family in Boston in 1837. 

The death of Fr. Jonathan Robinson of the Toronto Oratory is a sadness both for those who knew him and those many more who admired him from afar. 

Students of the Cold War's dark arts know that Communist intelligence services deeply penetrated the Vatican in the 1970s.

Servant of God Blandina Segale,  American missionary, sister, and Western Frontier figure once dubbed "the nun with spurs," befriended Billy the Kid and, it is said, saved many from being lynched.