The Fifth Column

Orthodox Catholic commentary on current events.

Sunday, October 12, 2025

Dilexi Te: Moving the Goalposts

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Delixi Te is a study in how to mis-represent reality so that you can force it into the cherry-picked version of the Gospel you've decide...

Why Global Fertility Rates Have Fallen

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The "demographic transition" has been observed for two centuries, but the reasons behind it are not clear. Simply put, as a socie...
Friday, September 12, 2025

Charlie Kirk Was Stupid

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"When people stop talking, that's when you get violence, that's when civil war happens." Charlie Kirk was not only stupid,...
Thursday, August 07, 2025

Heddy Lamar Did Not Invent Frequency Hopping

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 I'm just a little tired of seeing this trope on various social media platforms. Heddy was a beautiful women, she ran naked through the ...
Sunday, July 27, 2025

Polytheism Guards Against Divorce

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 According to Pew Research, Hindus have the highest rate of marriage and the lowest rate of divorce. When the survey breaks down the various...

Bacchanal and the Olympics

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What does the Bacchanal have to do with the Olympics? According to Livy, the Bacchanal was a murderous cultic instrument of conspiracy again...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Persons are Products and Always Have Been

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The pro-life position is that human persons are not products, and should not be turned into a commodity. While that may be true in a theolog...
Saturday, June 21, 2025

The Soul of the Matter: A Theological Problem

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This is a problem for Catholic theology. In 2002, Lydia Fairchild , a mother from Washington State, faced a baffling and distressing situati...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Silicon-Based Persons

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Jimmy Akins is not the brightest bulb on the tree. He is of the opinion that AI cannot be a person, cannot be ensouled by God. He's got ...
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