The Fifth Column

Orthodox Catholic commentary on current events.

Friday, April 24, 2026

No Vow, No Vocation

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If the life you are living did not involve a vow of some kind, then it is not a vocation. The Magisterial documents do not consider single l...
Sunday, April 19, 2026

Money as a Story

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 I don't know if this story about the Rothschilds is true. It is probably closer to a Kipling-esque " Just So" story (illustr...
Saturday, April 18, 2026

Billionaires and Poverty Destruction

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Any culture which has millionaires or billionaires has strongly enforced laws on private property and the right to capital accumulation. Any...
Monday, April 06, 2026

Advances in Gene Therapy

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Things are moving very fast in the area of gene therapy. Remember, while gene therapy that changes somatic cells is considered morally accep...
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Nobel Prize Winners Who Refused Judaism

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It is a commonplace that Jews make up less than 1% of the world's population, but between 25% and 30% of the world's Nobel Prize win...
Sunday, March 15, 2026

It Is OK That No One Can Detect AI

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AI is a tool that uses human-generated data, averages the data, then reproduces the average. It is a tool, just like a canvas or a paintbrus...
Friday, March 13, 2026

The Pope On War

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Pope Leo's statements about war are a testimony to the failures of American Catholic education: an American pope who says "war ...

We Are All Deists Now

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The whole point of inventing programming languages was to make it possible for less skilled people to write code. When you had to write comp...
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