I think the heroic nineteenth-century archbishop in Cuba, Anthony Mary Claret, was off the mark when he disapproved of laughter because Jesus is not known to have laughed.

Francis Thompson (1859-1907), English author, ascetic, and drug addict, wrote "The Hound of Heaven".

"Ida Elisabeth" is a novel about a self-sacrificing woman whose life of heroic suffering for the sake of her marriage and children exemplifies moral courage.

"Your own countrymen have disowned you, Don Fermão," said the young King Charles of Spain, the most powerful ruler upon earth, soon also to inherit the title of Holy Roman Emperor.  

Seventy-five years ago last February, Sophie and Hans Scholl and their friend Christian Probst were executed by guillotine at Munich's Stadelheim Prison for high treason.

It's very good to be able, finally, to have a film I can recommend wholeheartedly, although it's impossible for me not to be a little querulous.

A young boy sits at a desk, his chin propped on his fists. 

In March of 1937, Pope Pius XI issued two encyclicals within five days of each other.

Clemens Cavallin provides us with a very intimate portrait of O'Brien as an artist, a writer, and a family man in the biography "On The Edge of Infinity".

Servant of God Adele Dirsyte (1909-1955), tortured and martyred in Communist Russia, wrote the prayer book "Mary, Save Us" while imprisoned in Siberia.