As much as I admire Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone for challenging restrictions on the Church in San Francisco…

My editorial career has brought me into close contact with quite a few impressive thinkers.

Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete (1941–2014), physicist, spiritual advisor, and theologian known for his wit and warmth, authored the essay collection "God at the Ritz: Attraction to Infinity" (2002).

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.