In "The Altar of the Dead" (1895), the compunction of Henry James's hero, George Stransom, is a grace of conversion (in Girardian terms, of "novelistic conversion") with real-life consequences for ...

Pope Francis dedicated his homily for his March 28 Chrism Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica to a healthy living of compunction, which he said is not an “obsession” with feeling unworthy, but a ...

The issue in our nation today and the world at large is a failure of leadership . There is a saying that if the fish is rotten then it starts from the head. Nobody eats or like rotten fish , but ...

They lack empathy and exploit others without compunction. They ignore expert advice and treat those who differ with contempt and hostility. Above all, they demand personal loyalty.